UNM CDD Has Three to Four Year Wait For Autism Spectrum Evaluations – Director Moriarta Goes Silent When Questioned 
UNM Won’t Release Key Documents That Led Regents to Use $2.1 Million in “Hush Money” to Settle Suit Alleging Lab Fraud, Bullying, and Mismanagement 
Two Years After Horrific Abuse of Mary Melero, NM Division of Health Improvement Can’t Get Annual Abuse and Neglect Report Done on Time 
National Healthcare Consultant Group: 21-25% of New Mexico’s Rural Hospitals Vulnerable to Closure 
Measles outbreak declared in Lea County 
Governor and Legislators Value Movie Stars and Film Workers Way More Than Health Care Workers. 
Energy Watchdog: Despite Amendment, Water Bill Leaves Door Open for “Treated” Fracking Water to Recharge Aquifers NM State Engineer: “You know, do we need to be looking at something like a severance tax on that water?”
Is an elaborate proposal to pump thousands of acre feet of water 150 miles to…
House Democrats should be concerned
The word is out. Increasingly, folks in the labor movement are concerned some in the…
Besides Mold, what else lurks in the New Mexico Public Education Basement ?
NOTE: This reporter recently spoke with other former employees who have added their voices to the…
Where’s the Beef?
For the past week or so media folks and state employee groups have been hearing…
Stateline: Massachusetts Senate President Sets Bold Agenda
As Donald Trump gets ready to try and move this country backwards in almost every…
Promises, promises …
Sometimes great ideas are scratched out on the back of an envelope, or maybe a…
Tycoons get the cake, while New Mexico’s kids can’t even find the crumbs.
New Mexico’s children cannot afford to sit on the bench while the rest of the…
EDITORIAL. “For every blue-collar Democrat we lose …”
When President Obama takes his final flight on Air Force One in just a few…
To jump start its economy, New Mexico cannot continue snubbing federal assistance
New Mexico’s economic pulse is barely evident these days … it has become a ‘dead…
Almost $1 Million Awarded in Conference Contracts to Hotels and Casino Resort on behalf of NM PED’s programs
Sidebar on education spending: The Candle has been researching an investigative series on spending by…
UPDATED: NM PED spends millions on sole source contracts to out of state companies
PART ONE. The New Mexico Public Education Department (PED) is spending millions of dollars on no…
Which was first, the legislator or the lobbyist? In one instance, apparently both.
We’re going to mix up the metaphors a bit. No, its, not a golden parachute,…
The pathway to a BETTER BUDGET …
“Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in…
Taos Hospital Study Committee – Putting the ‘Community’ back into Community Hospital
The Taos Hospital Study Committee was created for all stakeholders: consumers, patients, the doctors, nurses…
Almost too ridiculous to be real …
Over the past few years hospital CEO’s having been striving to hypnotize the American public…