CMS Approves NM’s Disability Waivers for Next Five Years – But Governor and Legislators Under-fund Programs 
New Energy Economy Asks NMED to Reject Project Jupiter Air Permit as Legally Incomplete and Lacks Evidence 
Santa Fe County Fire Department Program Draws National Attention 
HCA’s New Turquoise Claims Continues Rejecting Legitimate Budget Claims of Developmentally Disabled Participants 
PRC Finds Private Equity Giant Violated Law … Consumers Call for End of Bid by Blackstone to Take Over Largest Utility 
$12 Million Approved to Support More Than 440 Jobs This Quarter 
New Mexico Modernizes Oil, Gas Industry Bonding, Cleanup Rules, Now Among Nation’s Strongest 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…
Is the Sun Quietly Setting on Oil & Gas? – Part one – 21st Century Solutions for NM.
(This is the first in a series about the need for New Mexico political leaders…
Augustin Plains Ranch: New Mexico’s Sequel to China Town?
UPDATE: The New Mexico Legislature will convene for it’s sixty day session in about ten more…
The Candle – Renews Coverage December 23, 2016!
The Candle – a place to find news and commentary on issues important to working…