OPINION Local news and entertainment since 1969 El Prospero It LAS CRUCES HISPA IC CHAMBER OP COMM.:.RCE LAS CRUCES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE • JULY/AUGUST 2020 VOLUME 13, ISSUE 4 Inside What the Future of Work Looks Like Post-COVID BY BEN GUNTHER nomad jumping from coffee or work remotely, they hen Microsoft shop to coffee shop. joined some of the millions CEO Satya Now, though, these types of others already making a W Nadella said, “We of workspaces are con- living from home or at least have seen two years’ worth sidered high-risk for the taking remote workdays of digital transformation in spread of disease, making a few days per week. It’s two months,” around May them risky for small and estimated that 50 percent of of this year, he was entirely large businesses alike. workers are working from correct. We predict a shift back home during this crisis. Things that people had to the private office space Now businesses and com- in their mind as “the future model. This can, and likely panies know that remote of work” for ten years from will, change to accommo- work is not only possible now are suddenly the norm date entrepreneurs, small for them, but also efficient, right now in 2020. CO- business teams, and remote productive, and even help VID-19 has truly changed workers to offer private of- them save money. how the entire world func- fices in shared buildings. Deloitte found that tions in just a few months' Remote work has pre-COVID, 25 percent of time. increased dramatically workers worked from home So what does the future throughout the pandemic at least once per week. They of work look like post- (more on that later), which estimate that post-COVID, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 COVID? As the world we believe will spur the the future of work will have starts to cautiously re-open, increase in the use of virtual over 34 percent of people what will employers do to office space. working from home once keep employees & consum- Virtual offices give people per week, with many others ers safe, employed, and the amenities and office staying completely remote. healthy? necessities they need with- Even More Emphasis on I Volume 52, Number 28 Here are our predictions out the physical location or Work Perks Where do you on some of the key as- having to even go into an Millennials have already pects of the future of work office. Everything you need pushed companies and PHOTO BY BONGKARN THANYAKIJ PEXELS around the world. to work will be digital and employers to start offer- Change to the Tradi- handled by the virtual office ing better work perks and expect to see even more of We also expect most a top tier work perk (work I lascrucesbulletin.com tional Office company. offerings to entice them these perks with an empha- companies to offer varied from home some days , in The past few years have Remote Work Is Here into positions in certain sis on healthcare, sick days, work schedules and types the office on others) along draw your line? seen a rise in co-working to Stay companies. hazard pay, childcare, and, depending on each em- with stipends for remote spaces, shared office spaces, As nonessential workers As we move to the future of course, working remotely ployee’s preferences. Hybrid workers and other remote and, of course, the digital moved to work from home of work post-COVID, we if necessary. work weeks will likely be work perks. LOS AMIGOS CHAIR ......................................................................... 2 POLITICAL COLUMNS .................................................................... 4-5 page 6 INDEXINDEX FROM THE PRESIDENT...................................................................... 3 HOW TO SAVE YOUR BUSINESS IN THIS COVID-19 PANDEMIC ............. 6 NEWS Billy’sBilly’s CrimesCrimes ofof thethe HeartHeart Crisis Triage Center may open page 18 BUSINESS Local businessman “Billy’s Crimes of the Heart” is a painting by Las Cruces artist Rebecca Courtney, “describing the pain and loss felt by Billy in his young life. Every time he found a heads up ‘family,’ it was taken from him by death or his own incarceration. He was so young and so dedicated to finding happiness, but he was too impetuous and revenge- Leadership NM ful. The painting shows the dandy young man showing off his best clothes and guns, but his heart was damaged by violence. His ghostly appearance haunts us page 33 even today.” Next week is the anniversary of the outlaw’s death, and it’s also the anniversary of the Trinity Site blast. See Kid coveragePHOTO COURTESY beginning OF REBECCAon page COURTNEY24, and Trinity Site coverage beginning on page 3. 2 | FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 LAS CRUCES BULLETIN Content brought to you by: Your Partner in Progress County treasurer waives fees Doña Ana County Treasurer Eric L. Rodriguez announced today that his office will waive penalty and interest fees from property tax payments made after May 10, for accounts that meet certain qualifi- cations. “We have been waiting for state legislation to pass so that our office can legally provide some relief to Doña Ana County taxpayers who were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic,” Rodriguez said. House Bill 6 provides such a relief by temporarily waiving penal- ty and interest for the second half of the 2019 tax liabilities on ac- counts that were current before May 10, 2020. The bill also provides significant relief and support measures for individuals, businesses and local governments, throughout the state. Qualified tax- payers will not receive penalty or interest on their balance until May 10, 2021. “Our office will be working hard to identify residents who already paid the fees and qualify for this waiv- er. We will credit their accounts and apply it to their 2020 tax liability,” Rodriguez said. Residents who were unable to pay property taxes on time are en- couraged to contact the County Treasurer’s office at 575-647-7433. For more information about the fee waiver, please vis- it www.donaanacounty.org/treasurer. Connect with us: (575) 647-7200 www.donaanacounty.org LAS CRUCES BULLETIN NEWS FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2020 | 3 The day the sun rose twice, 75 years later By ELVA K. ÖSTERREICH page story. school buses that served short, scruffy black Las Cruces Bulletin “It was after they the school. Fay gradu- beard ¬– all of a sud- bombed Japan that we ated eighth grade in May den he had these big Fay Lisk was 12 years found out that they set 1945. blotches all over it,” Fay old and fast asleep at 5:30 the test bomb off,” said “At the time, Bingham said. “They were gray, a.m., July 16, 1945. Her Fay, who was born in was on the old dirt road like if you had thrown mother was outside and 1932 and now makes her that went across there,” bleach on somebody. And saw a bright flash in the home in Globe, Arizona. she said. “There was [another family] had sky. Their family lived “Everything was such a little post office and ducks that hatched out on a ranch some 45 miles a secret. We knew there a little store and some deformed. There was just north of the place the was a town of Los Ala- little cabins. There was a lot of this that people Atomic Age began, now mos, but all the contact one teacher and that started talking about. known as the Trinity we actually had was a year I think we had 12-13 Cows and cats with Test Site. radio, and we would only kids who went to school blotches. They [the gov- PUBLIC DOMAIN PHOTO Fay said her mother-in- get a little news that there. I was the only one ernment] never did say law lived in Mountainair, The Atomic Age begins in the early morning July 16, 1945, in way.” in eighth grade. I loved or do anything about it.” southern New Mexico. 75 miles as the crow flies, The schoolhouse Lisk school.” Fay said the people from Trinity Site, and attended was in Bing- Living next to the who ran the Bingham she saw the windows 9, 1945, that the people Headlines screamed ham, 20 miles north of Myers was a younger store, Harald and Sally shake as if an earth- of the Tularosa Basin, the U.S. had destroyed Trinity Site. She stayed couple. The husband’s Dean, died, she thinks, quake had hit. It wasn’t Jornada del Muerto and two cities, Hiroshima and with Ted and Sylvia name was Henry, Fay with lung cancer. The until the United States surrounding areas knew Nagasaki, and the suc- Myers during the school remembers. They would Myers moved to Farm- dropped atomic bombs what had happened in cessful test in southern week. Ted and Christian visit to play cards. on Japan, Aug. 6 and their area of the world. New Mexico was a back- Myers drove the two “He [Henry] had a SEE DAY, PAGE 4 Don’t wait to have your annual mammogram. Our technology includes 3D mammography. Breast imaging that offers better accuracy and few Your Health. callbacks can be life-saving, especially for women with dense breast tissue. A 3D mammogram can improve cancer detection by 40%.* To schedule your 3D mammogram, Our Heroes. call 575.521.5270 Learn about our safety procedures at mmclc.org Schedule your 3D Mammogram with us. 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