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WEBSep 11, 2024 · We’re dedicated to investigative reporting and innovative data journalism. Your donations help make a difference. Help Support Investigative Journalism. Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative and public service journalism in the interest of the people of New Mexico.
Health Archives | Searchlight New Mexico
WEBAug 30, 2023 · by Vanessa G. Sánchez April 13, 2023. CLOVIS — Victoria Robledo was two months pregnant last June when the only women’s health clinic in this eastern New Mexico town closed its doors. Hers was a complicated pregnancy that demanded specialized care, and Robledo, 24, soon found herself driving long distances — 100 miles to Lubbock, Texas ...
A nuclear legacy in Los Alamos - Searchlight New Mexico
WEBAug 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.
New map shows plutonium contamination miles away from Los …
WEBApr 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
On the Navajo Nation, a life without water - Searchlight New Mexico
WEBNov 29, 2023 · On the Navajo Nation, a life without water. Thousands of Navajos have no clean running water at home, a crisis magnified by drought and government neglect. This is how families cope. by Richard Tsong-Taatarii November 29, 2023. This project was made possible with a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.
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WEBEmpowering 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.
An Apache ceremony for the ages | Searchlight New Mexico
WEBby Michael Benanav September 6, 2023. 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, which would last four full days and into the morning of a fifth.
Modern Vascular faces lawsuits in Arizona and New Mexico
WEBJun 22, 2021 · Three other lawsuits alleging medical malpractice have been filed by or on behalf of patients treated at Modern Vascular clinics in Arizona and one in New Mexico; one in Arizona was dismissed voluntarily by the plaintiffs. Some patients end up at Modern Vascular clinics because they are referred by doctors with a financial stake in the clinics ...
Meet our team - Searchlight New Mexico
WEBMeet 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.
'State of chaos': New Mexico’s child welfare crisis is worse, …
WEBSep 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 a Sept. 18 letter to the acting ...