Three Years After Horrific Abuse of Mary Melero, New Mexico Ignores Improving Workforce Serving Most Vulnerable 
Heralded as the Medicaid Guru New Mexico Crucially Needed, and After Being Paid $550,000, Dana Flannery Quits 
Technicality Allowed Governor Lujan Grisham to Dodge a Formal Complaint Under Governmental Conduct Act 
New Mexico Should Invest in Real Jobs, Not Handouts to CEO’s and Investor Sector 
Abuse of New Mexico State Procurement Process is Historically Disturbing 
AG Raúl Torrez Files Lawsuit Against Parties Responsible for Fraudulent Oil Well Scheme Endangering New Mexicans 
Aging Department Marks Year of Expanded Services for Seniors in New Mexico 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…