LFC Recommends $10.1 Billion Budget
Under the committee’s spending plan, reserves would be 30 percent of planned spending, safely above…
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Gov. Lujan Grisham Releases FY25 Executive Budget Recommendation For New Mexico. Legislative Finance Committee Expected to Release Its Recommendations Tomorrow.
Note: The Candle is publishing Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s Press Release with its link to…
More Neglect of DD Waiver Clients. At the New Mexico Human Service and Health Agencies, “It’s Just a Mess All the Way Around.”
In the last several days scores of clients of the Developmental Disability Waiver programs found…
New Mexico General Fund revenues expected to continue growth
Forecast is for strong reserves to end the current fiscal year State Agency Press release…
Attorney General Raúl Torrez Sues Meta Platforms and Zuckerberg to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking
State Agency Press Release – From the New Mexico Office of Attorney General Santa Fe,…
Why Didn’t DOH’s Allen and Acosta Come Clean to Legislators About Lawsuit Seeking Pay for Direct Service Providers?
Breaking News. On Wednesday, at a hearing of the New Mexico Legislative Health and Human…
Did New Mexico DOH Know DD Waiver Provider Is Being Sued In Class Action Federal Suit For Failing to Pay Overtime to Direct Caregivers?
When a group of Las Cruces area direct care workers at Quality Life Services, LLC…
As New Mexico Hemorrhages Healthcare Workers – Younger Doctors and Other Professionals Are Hesitant to Stay.
This is an introduction to the first of several stories dealing with the collective failure…
Through Two Administrations, State Officials Received Reports of Abuse of Mary Melero. Had they Acted, She Likely Would Be Alive Today.
Why Did the New Mexico Adult Protective Services and the Division of Health Improvements, Wait…
The Unspoken Truth About Mary Melero’s Death: State Officials Really Don’t Care About People Like Her.
Governance is about making choices. In the matter of Mary Melero, New Mexico state government…
UPDATED STORY: New Mexico Loses Bid for Hydro Hub, As Many in Environment Community Breath a Bit Easier and Water Resources Likely Better Preserved
WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the help of a decision of the Biden administration, environmental opponents…
Disability Rights Group Files Complaint Against Albuquerque Public Schools for Failure to Provide Transportation to Special Needs Students
The Following is from the Disability Rights New Mexico: Disability Rights New Mexico – DRNM,…
New Mexico Child Abuse and Neglect Cases Increase More Than 50%
From New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee September 2023 Newsletter The Children, Youth and Families Department…
Film Credit Growing but Generates Few Jobs – Cost to State Coffers to be $275 million a year by FY28
From The New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee September 2023 Newsletter The film production tax credit…
Charles Sallee Chosen as New Director of NM Legislative Finance Committee
Charles Sallee was chosen to be the new director of the New Mexico Legislative Finance…