Searchlight New Mexico | Independent Investigative Journalism
Nov 21, 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.
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 …
Toxic timeline: A brief history of PFAS - Searchlight New Mexico
Feb 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.
An Apache ceremony for the ages | Searchlight New Mexico
Sep 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.
Meet our team - Searchlight New Mexico
Investigative 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, …
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.
'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 …
Sara Solovitch, Author at Searchlight New Mexico
Sara Solovitch is the editor 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.
Navajo elders: Alone, without food, in despair
Aug 6, 2020 · Listen to the story in Diné. Editor’s update: We received an outpouring of concern from readers who wanted to send donations to the people in this story. Thanks to the New Mexico Community Foundation, a local Navajo resident, and Searchlight reporter Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi, there is now a fund specifically established to help the people mentioned.
New Mexicans asked to repay unemployment benefits that the …
Feb 24, 2022 · Editor’s Note: Ricky Serna, the acting cabinet secretary for the Department of Workforce Solutions, called Searchlight New Mexico on Feb. 24 to say that DWS had provided inaccurate data in response to Searchlight’s requests for information about overpayments in the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program. Searchlight on Jan. 25 and again in early February asked DWS for public ...