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.
Inside the shoplifting bust of Albuquerque Journal editor Patrick …
Oct 4, 2024 · 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.
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.
Shannon Pinto, the only Navajo in the New Mexico senate
Oct 3, 2024 · Pinto is Diné, tall house clan, born for the red house clan, from Tohatchi. She’s been a state senator for five years but has been near the senate most of her life: her grandfather John Pinto was a state senator from 1977 to 2019. One of only two Native women on the senate floor, and the only Navajo senator, she occupies something of a ...
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.
PFAS contaminates drinking water in historic New Mexico village
Feb 15, 2024 · Credit: Nadav Soroker/Searchlight New Mexico. “It’s an environmental catastrophe,” said Vioma Trujillo, who has lived in La Cieneguilla since 1979. She’s hoping the county will test her well for PFAS, saving her the hundreds of dollars it would cost out of pocket. In the meantime, she’s drinking bottled water.
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 …
'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 …
Alex Heard, Author at Searchlight New Mexico
Oct 8, 2024 · Alex Heard is the former editor in chief of Outside magazine, where he specialized in investigative reporting, ambitious longform narratives, and essays. He has also worked as an editor at Wired and The New York Times Magazine. He’s the author of two books: “ The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow ...