Searchlight New Mexico | Independent Investigative Journalism
Oct 8, 2024 · Inside the shoplifting bust of Albuquerque Journal editor Patrick Ethridge. The editor of New Mexico’s largest newspaper has lost his job for stealing groceries at a Walmart. Public and private records obtained by Searchlight New Mexico paint a clear picture of what happened. What remains a mystery is why. by Joshua Bowling October 4, 2024.
An Apache ceremony for the ages | Searchlight New Mexico
by Michael Benanav September 6, 2023. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) More. At the end of July, in a forest clearing in the heart of the Mescalero Apache Reservation, a 13-year-old girl braved a coming-of-age ceremony marking her initiation into womanhood. Teepees and oak-branch arbors had been erected for the occasion ...
ABOUT - Searchlight New Mexico
Empowering the Public. Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative reporting. In a landscape of shrinking media resources, our mission is to focus high-impact journalism on topics of local, regional and national interest in order to allow the public to see into the remote recesses of government and to expose abuses of power.
Toxic timeline: A brief history of PFAS - Searchlight New Mexico
Feb 19, 2019 · 1947: 3M starts mass-manufacturing PFOA, one of the best-known members in a family of thousands of fluorochemicals called PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). 1951: DuPont starts using PFOA to make Teflon. 1953: A close relative of PFOA – a chemical called PFOS – is accidentally spilled on a 3M chemist’s tennis shoe.
BOARD - Searchlight New Mexico
Daniel Yohalem, board secretary, has been an attorney for over 42 years, the last 29 of which have been in New Mexico.He received his B.A. in 1970 from Yale University and J.D. with honors in 1973 from Columbia University Law School. He is currently in private practice, focusing on First Amendment, civil rights, open government, employment, and class action cases for …
Meet our team - Searchlight New Mexico
Meet the Searchlight team. Executive Editor | Alex Heard is the former editor in chief of Outside magazine, where he specialized in investigative reporting, ambitious longform narratives, and essays written by some of the most prominent voices in outdoor literature. He has also worked as an editor at Wired and The New York Times Magazine.
New map shows plutonium contamination miles away from Los …
Apr 25, 2024 · The Buckman Direct Diversion Project at a bend in the Rio Grande River, viewed from White Rock Overlook. Nadav Soroker/Searchlight New Mexico Posted in Nuclear The long path of plutonium: A new map charts contamination at thousands of sites, miles from Los Alamos National Laboratory
A nuclear legacy in Los Alamos - Searchlight New Mexico
Aug 15, 2024 · The world’s oldest documented plutonium contamination may not lie in the Chihuahuan Desert at the Trinity Site, where the first-ever atomic bomb ripped open the skies and melted the sand into green glass.
'State of chaos': New Mexico’s child welfare crisis is worse, …
Sep 28, 2023 · New Mexico’s child welfare system has devolved into a “state of chaos,” leaving foster children in dismaying and dangerous conditions, according to a scathing assessment from independent monitors. “The situation is worse than last year, deteriorating, and requires effective immediate action to protect children’s safety,” the monitors wrote in …
In drought-plagued New Mexico, a city loses nearly half its water …
Feb 15, 2023 · Water lines being replaced in downtown Truth or Consequences. Michael Benanav/Searchlight New Mexico. In 2022, over 200 million gallons — a staggering 43 percent of the water in the system — was lost to leakage, according to T or C’s city manager, Bruce Swingle. Three years earlier, losses were at 28 percent. Not only does this show how ...