Front-line Healthcare Employees and First Responders Deserve an Answer from the Governor
Since early March, when she issued Executive Order 2020-004, declaring a state of public health…
Editorial
Editorials of The Candle and Guests
Board of Selectmen Needs to Act On Complaint About Abuse of Hours
In February the Pepperell board of selectmen received a written complaint from the town’s assistant…
Pepperell Board of Health Has Gravel Pit On the Agenda Tonight … Will They Finally Act?
Editorial Tuesday, July 24, 2018 The Pepperell Board of Health (BOH) meets tonight at the…
Restoring Democratic Principles: Our Common Responsibility. Guest OpEd/Announcement.
By Guest Contributors Tony Beattie and Margaret Scarsdale PEPPERELL, Massachusetts – Continuing its emphasis on…
Where have we been?
The Candle is going through a significant makeover. For the past several months, the team…
Flip Flopping House Dems were for HB 412 revenue reform bill … before they were against it.
Flip Flopping. First they were for it … That was before they were against it….
Roundhouse Melodrama: It’s about the Political Class, Not the People.
New Mexico’s political class – Soap opera stars, one and all! Come on folks, after…
PEW Charitable Trusts: NM has highest percentage of 25- to 54-year-olds without jobs.
As New Mexico’s governor and legislative leaders hurl accusations and insults at one another over a state budget…
“Gawwwleeeee. Surprise, surprise, surprise!” … Governor axes taxes.
“Gawwwleeeee. Surprise, surprise, surprise!” … Governor Martinez vetoed the Democrats’ proposals on the budget and…
NM House Democrats’ new wardrobe.
Making an appearance on the House Calendar today is HB 575, entitled the Health Security…
Kids to get short shrift again?
Despite having won the House back and increasing their margins in the Senate, it seems…
The Time To Pass Early Childhood Education is NOW.
A few days ago hundreds of very young children of New Mexico arrived at the…
Democratic Leadership lacking focus.
To many veterans of the Roundhouse, the Democratic leadership is lacking focus. One by one, progressive…
Hey Kid, you wait behind the Oil guys.
Remember latchkey kids? That’s a term used back in the day for kids who came…
For progressives, the problem ain’t the Republicans, or Governor Martinez … it’s the Democrats.
It would be generous to describe the Democratic leadership in New Mexico’s legislature as Dems-lite….