Decades, a privately owned Albuquerque company established in 2001 to provide elder care management for families coping with medical, legal and financial challenges, has opened a Santa Fe office at 233 Johnson St.

Among Decades' clients are "sandwich generation" adult children, family members living out of state and elders needing a corporate fiduciary.

For more information, call Terri Tobey, business development, at 983-7787, e-mail ttobey@ decades
group.com or visit www.decadesgroup.com.


New Mexico Attorney General Gary King is asking the state insurance superintendent to reduce title insurance rates by more than 13 percent in order to reduce real estate transaction costs for consumers.

"The last 20 years have been extremely profitable for the New Mexico title insurance industry, with their profits in some years more than double what the Superintendent declared to be reasonable, yet rates have continued to rise," King said in a statement. "I think it's time for New Mexico home buyers to get a break on the high costs of real estate transactions."

The insurance superintendent has about 60 days to issue his final order on rates for title insurance.


While the Internal Revenue Service provides publications about a wide range of topics, it believes there is one publication every taxpayer should have with them when they are preparing federal tax returns and that's Publication 17, Your Federal Income Tax.

Among other things, the online version of Publication 17 contains electronic links that make finding your answer simple. Both the downloadable PDF and online 2009 Publication 17 have more than 6,000 hyperlinks.

Free hard copies of Publication 17 can be obtained by visiting visit IRS.gov or calling 800-829-3676.


Community Bank recently promoted Bhavin Sanghavi to assistant vice president.


First State Bancorporation has named Garrey E. Carruthers chairman of the board of directors and H. Patrick Dee as president and chief executive officer.