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June 3, 2021 New Mexico Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s Children, Youth, and Families Department in May fired two senior employees who raised concerns over the agency’s use of Signal, an encrypted messaging app where staff communications were concealed. The app’s use was supported by the governor’s office, whose team instructed agency employees to routinely delete their messages every 10 days or sooner, according to blockbuster reporting from the New Mexico investigative nonprofit Searchlight. “Department leadership then set many of those communications to automatically delet...

3:01   Commentary: Thanks to solid investigative reporting by Searchlight New Mexico, the state Children Youth and Families Department is no longer using a secure messaging system designed to circumvent open records laws by automatically deleting records before a request can be made. The system allowed CYFD officials to automatically delete their text messages. According to former CYFD Chief Public Information Officer Cliff Gilmore, Department Secretary Brian Blaylock told top staff members that they should set their messages to automatically delete after 24 hours, specifically to avoid the...

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Market Views: How will Democrat control affect investment possibilities? Given that a split Congress had been expected, how will the Democrats' win following runoff elections in Georgia change the way market participants invest? Victory bump: Raphael Warnock (right) and Jon Ossoff's double win in Georgia Senate elections gave US Democrats the Senate majority. Last week was momentous for the US. As a pro-Trump mob prepared to storm the Capitol, runoff elections in Georgia saw Democrats take control of the Senate, giving the party unified charge of both the Congress and the White House for the...