Searchlight New Mexico | Independent Investigative Journalism
WEBJul 18, 2024 · 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.
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.
An Apache ceremony for the ages | Searchlight New Mexico
WEBSep 6, 2023 · At sunrise on the first morning, a team of men erects the “big teepee” on the reservation in south-central New Mexico. Some are Seaven’s friends and family, but many work for the Mescalero Apache Natural Resources Department, which offers employees time to help with every coming-of-age ceremony.
Toxic timeline: A brief history of PFAS - Searchlight New Mexico
WEBFeb 19, 2019 · Amy Linn has written about social issues and child well-being throughout her career, starting at the Miami Herald and including work for the Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Examiner and Bloomberg News. She was the recipient of an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship to write about teenagers on death row; the resulting stories appeared in the New York Times and other publications.
Meet our team - Searchlight New Mexico
WEBInvestigative Reporter | Alicia Inez Guzmán was raised in the northern New Mexican village of Truchas, and has written about histories of place, identity and land use in New Mexico. She brings this knowledge to her current role covering the nuclear industry, focusing on the impact of nuclear weapons expansion at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, nuclear waste storage and other critical issues.
ABOUT - Searchlight New Mexico
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.
Modern Vascular faces lawsuits in Arizona and New Mexico
WEBJun 22, 2021 · It’s a particularly egregious case study in the perils of the commercialized American medical system, which doles out dollars based on the number of physical tasks and items — surgeries, examinations, medications — instead of how beneficial those services are for patients.
Calling in crisis - Searchlight New Mexico
WEBMar 22, 2023 · A history of problems in Albuquerque. Other New Mexico communities have for years been sending unarmed civilians to 911 calls. Bernalillo County sends mobile crisis teams, rather than sheriff’s deputies, to some mental health calls, as does the Santa Fe Fire Department and Santa Fe County, which funds a regional 24/7 mobile crisis team that serves beyond city limits.
Elise Kaplan, Author at Searchlight New Mexico
WEBOct 12, 2023 · Elise Kaplan moved to New Mexico in 2010 and was instantly enamored with the landscape, the people and the stories the state holds. She graduated from the University of New Mexico with a degree in journalism in 2012.
The age of consequence: Wildfires in New Mexico
WEBSep 28, 2022 · A ‘man-made disaster’ On April 22, eight large wildfires were burning across New Mexico, their flames fanned by winds of up to 80 mph. That day, the Hermit’s Peak Fire exploded, moving north and colliding with the Calf Canyon Fire — which days earlier had emerged from smoldering embers left over from yet another Forest Service prescribed burn, one that was set back in January.