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by Bruce Wetherbee-
May 5, 2021
While insisting the state could not afford a modest pay raise for employees like New Mexico Department of Transportation workers in the photo above, the Governor’s people provided former Albuquerque news anchor, Marisa Maez, now a...
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
May 1, 2021
(This is Part Two of a Continuing Series on the Administration of Environmental Policy in New Mexico.) Not many New Mexicans doubt that Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is breaking critically significant ground relating to climate change....
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Apr 26, 2021
(This is Part One of a Continuing Series on the Administration of Environmental Policy in New Mexico.) Update: The Candle will publish part Two of this report later today, Tuesday. April 27, 2021. Originally the intent...
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Feb 26, 2021
You should not have to take the Governor to court in order to find out what is going on in state government. But that is exactly what The Candle has had to do to get to...
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Jan 31, 2021
In a classic “do as I say, not as I do” moment, New Mexico’s Democratic Governor asked thousands of employees to take the fiscal hit – even as she was quietly handing out $7,400 to $18,000...
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Oct 6, 2020
UPDATE: Part 1A – The Governor, her Chief of Staff, General Counsel, and the WCA Director continue their collective silence on why more qualified women lawyers were passed over in the appointment of an assistant cabinet...
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Sep 29, 2020
“My position on sexual harassment is clear: it is totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated by me or in my administration,” Michelle Lujan Grisham to Associated Press reporters Russell Contreras and Morgan Lee in November...
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Jun 22, 2020
Part Two – Will House members have the will to force the Governor’s hand and the Senate back into the Special Session, to provide relief for thousands of New Mexico’s residential renters? Legislators like to pat...
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Jun 22, 2020
Part One – Governor wants curbside and home delivery for Booze, but according to House leadership she has closed the door on eviction relief to potentially thousands of New Mexico’s residential renters. If you are a...
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Apr 24, 2020
Earlier this week the prestigious Mayo Clinic announced that beginning in May it will furlough as many as 30,000 of their staff throughout the United States to deal with the losses it is sustaining due to...
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by Bill Batie-
Apr 23, 2020
The US stock market is an invaluable source of wealth creation providing people the opportunity to mutually own shares in some of the most important and most successful companies in the world. Wealth creation is not...
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Apr 23, 2020
As Americans sit at home pondering life after COVID-19 and reflecting on the lives of those we will miss, let’s also look for a way to rebuild our country with fairness. This is our existential moment...
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Apr 22, 2020
On March 27th UNM Chancellor Paul Roth, MD, wrote UNM Hospital CEO Kate Becker to inform her that she would receive another six-month incentive pay of $67,447.90. This is the third such bonus Becker has received...
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Apr 22, 2020
Since early March, when she issued Executive Order 2020-004, declaring a state of public health emergency in New Mexico due to the COVID-19, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has taken control of the reins of state government’s...
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Apr 5, 2020
This is a story that should infuriate policy makers and the public alike – especially considering the strain the current pandemic is placing on our health system. His is the best of contracts. Hers is far,...
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Mar 23, 2020
New Mexico health officials have chosen not to share some important information relative to COVID-19 hospitalizations – and the preparedness, equipment and safety conditions at hospitals across the state with the public. They are certainly not...
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Mar 17, 2020
In a letter delivered yesterday to U. S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the American Nurses Association (ANA), the American Hospital Association (AHA), and the American Medical Association (AMA)...
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Mar 8, 2020
While Chancellor Roth, CEO Becker and their executive colleagues pay themselves collectively more than $10 million in salaries and bonuses – over 1,200 employees (18% of the hospital workforce) are making less than a living wage...
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Mar 7, 2020
Saturday, March 7, 2020 – The guy getting paid $150,000/year by UNM Hospital for doing nothing won’t talk. Steve McKernan, UNMH’s retired CEO, told The Candle to call UNM when reached and asked if it was...
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Oct 7, 2018
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by Bruce Wetherbee-
Oct 6, 2018
Pepperell, Massachusetts – Ethics violation complaints against the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Roland Nutter, have been filed with the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission for his participating in a closed-door meeting regarding a complaint of...
(This is Part Two of a Continuing Series on the Administration of Environmental Policy in New Mexico.) Not many New Mexicans doubt that Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is breaking critically significant ground relating to climate change....
You should not have to take the Governor to court in order to find out what is going on in state government. But that is exactly what The Candle has had to do to get to...
“My position on sexual harassment is clear: it is totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated by me or in my administration,” Michelle Lujan Grisham to Associated Press reporters Russell Contreras and Morgan Lee in November...
Part Two – Will House members have the will to force the Governor’s hand and the Senate back into the Special Session, to provide relief for thousands of New Mexico’s residential renters? Legislators like to pat...
Part One – Governor wants curbside and home delivery for Booze, but according to House leadership she has closed the door on eviction relief to potentially thousands of New Mexico’s residential renters. If you are a...
Earlier this week the prestigious Mayo Clinic announced that beginning in May it will furlough as many as 30,000 of their staff throughout the United States to deal with the losses it is sustaining due to...
The US stock market is an invaluable source of wealth creation providing people the opportunity to mutually own shares in some of the most important and most successful companies in the world. Wealth creation is not...
As Americans sit at home pondering life after COVID-19 and reflecting on the lives of those we will miss, let’s also look for a way to rebuild our country with fairness. This is our existential moment...
While Chancellor Roth, CEO Becker and their executive colleagues pay themselves collectively more than $10 million in salaries and bonuses – over 1,200 employees (18% of the hospital workforce) are making less than a living wage...
Pepperell, Massachusetts – Ethics violation complaints against the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Roland Nutter, have been filed with the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission for his participating in a closed-door meeting regarding a complaint of...