Current News
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Lujan Grisham Administration Quietly OK’d a $40,000 Pay Raise for Celebrity DOT Employee.
May 5, 2021While 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... -
As Governor Touts New Mexico’s Successes on Climate Change, Why Such a Low Bar to Control Harmful Levels of Fugitive Dust?
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.... -
For Jubilee Residents It’s a Matter of Life and Breath. But for NMED, This Fugitive Dust Is Not Its Problem.
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... -
Governor’s Office, Agencies Sued for Records in Human Rights Violations Matter.
Feb 26, 2021You 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... -
New Mexico Governor Quietly Gave Large Raises to Her Staff While Cutting Teacher and State Employee Raise
Jan 31, 2021In 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... -
It appears Governor’s staff knew about attorney’s alleged bullying and harassment of women colleagues.
Oct 6, 2020UPDATE: 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... -
Lujan Grisham promotes lawyer alleged to have harassed and bullied women employees.
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... -
The House could prevent unnecessary evictions. Where there’s a will, there is a way.
Jun 22, 2020Part 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... -
House Leadership: Governor will not amend her ‘Call’ to help COVID-19 tenants.
Jun 22, 2020Part 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... -
As Hospitals Wait for Federal Aid, Some Layoff or Furlough Employees.
Apr 24, 2020Earlier 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... -
At This Time of Unprecedented Volatility – Bring Back the Uptick Rule
Apr 23, 2020The 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... -
Let’s Reintroduce Fairness, and Help Reboot America’s Economy.
Apr 23, 2020As 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... -
UNMH’s Becker gets $67,000 Six-month Bonus, as COVID-19 Quarantined Employees Get Reduced Pay Checks.
Apr 22, 2020On 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... -
Front-line Healthcare Employees and First Responders Deserve an Answer from the Governor
Apr 22, 2020Since 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... -
UNMH – A Tale of Two Standards.
Apr 5, 2020This 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,...
