Medicaid Trust Fund Gets Close to $1 Billion Windfall. It’s Time for a Plan to Boost DDSD and Elder Caregiver Salaries 
Three Wildland Firefighters Killed in Colorado Blaze. “It’s devastating for the wildland firefighting community.” 
Salary Surfing, Pension Boost, and Revolving Door for DOH CFO Retiring; Returning Next Day as Contract Employee 
In More States, Older People Outnumber Children – Including in New Mexico 
Supreme Court Delivers a Victory for Pesticide Companies Over Cancer Claims 
CDC Activates Emergency Operations Center for New World Screwworm Response 
DDSD Services in Jeopardy From Sloppy Transition of Turquoise Claims System New Mexico selected to participate in national caregiver workforce grant program
New Mexico one of six states selected for inaugural cohort State Agency Press Release –…
Over 600 Sites Offering Free Meals for New Mexico Youth This Summer
State Agency Press Release – From The New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department…
HSD Proposed Rates: Likely Decrease For Most Vulnerable on DD Waiver – Despite Legislators Approving Budget Increases
Despite 2023 State Study Noting Serious Deficiencies and Unavailability of Services, the Developmental Disabilities Wavier…
Judicial Clerkship Program’s summer externships underway
State Agency Press Release – From The New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts 2024…
As WQCC Member McWilliams Claims No Conflict of Interest, State Records Show Her Husband’s Company had 21 Produced Water Spills – 11 Classified as “Major”
At least eighteen of the Logos company “produced water” spills occurred since Governor Michelle Lujan…
Fires, Smoke, and Health
New Mexico Smoke from Fires and Your Health Toolkit State Agency Press release – From…
NM Environment Department releases quarterly performance assessment highlighting achievements, enforcement actions
State Agency Press Release – From The New Mexico Environment Department SANTA FE — The…
State Awards $760,000 in Inaugural Round of Research University Commercialization Awards
State Agency Press Release – From the New Mexico Economic Development Department SANTA FE, N.M….
Continued Underpayment for Care of Developmentally Disabled Leads to 33.9% Increase in Abuse and Neglect
Lack of Workforce Once Again Strikes Waiver Needs (This reporting has been updated on Saturday,…
The First Amendment Is Clear – And UNM’s Arrest of Journalists is Inexcusable
First Amendment “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the…
Legislative Finance Committee Report Confirms State Employee Classification and Compensation System is Broken
“The classification and compensation structures are out of sync with the current labor market, negatively…
Developer Buys Land in McKinley County, Then With Help of Legislator, Gets State to Build a $30 Million Five Mile Road Through Key Section of His Company’s 26,000 Acres
“If you don’t build it, they won’t come.” – Patty Lundstrom, State Representative and Economic…
Among WQCC Members Expected to Decide Produced Water Rule: Oil Biz Executive; and Three State Employees Given Big Pay Raises in the Days Leading to NMED Filing Rule
Three state employees who sit on the commission received annual pay raises ranging from $12,376…
New Energy Economy, the Center for Biological Diversity, and WildEarth Guardians Request Produced Water Hearing Be Cancelled and Refiled
Citing a 1980, New Mexico Supreme Court Decision relative to “want of jurisdiction,” New Energy…
MLG Globe-trots to Europe to Pitch Hydrogen Development for New Mexico, with Her Usual Entourage Tagging Along
“Opportunity to sell New Mexico as a Dynamic and Thriving Place for Hydrogen Industry Investment.”…