Comment Period for DD and Med Fragile Waivers Ends March 30th – State Plans Only One Day to Review Comments
The New Mexico Health Care Authority’s Developmental Disabilities Supports Division (DDSD) is seeking public comments…
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After Seven Years of MLG’s Braggadocio, DD Waiver Clients and Families Need an Honest Governor Who Listens to Them
DD Waiver Community Has 42 Weeks to Educate New Mexico’s Next Governor, And Not Repeat…
State and Public School Employee Pay Raise Evaporates in Senate Committee to Cover Cost of Governor’s State Fair Deal
Almost one hundred thousand state employees, public school teachers, school support and transportation employees saw…
DD Waiver Community Should Ask Senate to Restore DDSD Funding to at Least the Executive Requested Amount
House Cut Developmental Disability Recommended Spending by $56 Million, While Seeking to Increase Corporate Welfare…
With Friends Like House Democrats, NM’s Developmentally Disabled Don’t Need Any Enemies – Will Senate Be As Uncaring?
New Mexico DD Waiver Community Consistently Dissed By Democrats in Charge Since 2019, the Democrats…
Three Years After Horrific Abuse of Mary Melero, New Mexico Ignores Improving Workforce Serving Most Vulnerable
Almost three years after the horrendous and needless death of a young woman under the…
Heralded as the Medicaid Guru New Mexico Crucially Needed, and After Being Paid $550,000, Dana Flannery Quits
Less than two years as New Mexico’s ‘official’ Medicaid Director, Dana Flannery claims the demands…
Technicality Allowed Governor Lujan Grisham to Dodge a Formal Complaint Under Governmental Conduct Act
A Majority of State Ethics Commission voted to “authorize the filing of a civil action…
New Mexico Should Invest in Real Jobs, Not Handouts to CEO’s and Investor Sector
As House and Senate Finance Committees Meet, Members Need to Look More Closely at the…
Abuse of New Mexico State Procurement Process is Historically Disturbing
For Years Governors and Lawmakers Ignored the Warnings of Legislative Staff that New Mexico’s Procurement…
Just Down the Road: New Investigative Reporting From The Candle
The Candle will deliver new reporting from several months of research and interviews regarding key…
No Bid Spending by Lujan Grisham Eclipses Martinez Administration
This is the first in a series regarding state purchasing by agencies of state and…
Governor and PED Withheld Records From Court Re Criticism of State’s Handling of Yazzie Martinez Case
Public Education Department’s Filing With Court Missing All Pueblo Council of Governors Resolution Criticizing PED…
New Mexico Environment Department Holds Confidential Meetings Re: Clean Transportation Fuel Program Rule Making
A contract attorney representing the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED), has insisted that participants of…
For Lujan Grisham’s Administration, the SOP For Use of Sole Source Procurement Code Seems Antithetical to Its Purpose
This is an introduction to a series The Candle will be reporting over the next…