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WEBMeet the Searchlight team. Executive Editor | Sara Solovitch guides and edits the work of Searchlight New Mexico. She supervised its launch in January 2018 with the Child Well-Being Project, an investigation into the plight of children and families in New Mexico. Before coming to Searchlight, she published investigative and long-form stories in ...
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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.
Toxic timeline: A brief history of PFAS - Searchlight New Mexico
WEBFeb 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.
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An Apache ceremony for the ages | Searchlight New Mexico
WEBSep 6, 2023 · Click to print (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, which would last four full …
The world of New Mexico’s colonias - Searchlight New Mexico
WEBApr 27, 2022 · They grew rapidly, offering people like Pérez the possibility of land and homeownership. Hundreds of colonias soon sprang up along the Mexican border from Texas to California, and today there are more than 2,000 of them. In New Mexico alone, there are more than 140 colonias, home to some 135,000 people. Pérez, in his kitchen, shows his green ...
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.
Unsafe, understaffed, overwhelmed | Searchlight New Mexico
WEBMay 7, 2020 · The staff accused Gallup’s second largest hospital of questionable leadership decision-making that led to severe staff shortages, a Searchlight New Mexico investigation found. Interviews with six doctors, three nurses and other caregivers, and a review of internal emails and written complaints, reveal a hospital in disarray.