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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.
A nuclear legacy in Los Alamos - Searchlight New Mexico
WEBAug 15, 2024 · Decades-old nuclear waste persists in a popular recreation area near the Los Alamos National Laboratory, study finds
Picuris Pueblo in New Mexico fights centuries-old water battle
WEBDec 16, 2021 · The irrigators take water that belongs to the Rio Pueblo — which is part of the Rio Grande Basin — and move it to the Mora River, in the Arkansas River Basin. This strikes Picuris as ecologically and spiritually criminal. “They’re killing the land, killing the environment,” Quanchello said at Alamitos Creek.
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.
Criminalizing Disability Archives | Searchlight New Mexico
WEBJun 11, 2019 · Throughout 2019, Searchlight New Mexico reporters worked with hundreds of parents—conducting interviews, holding listening sessions, collecting and analyzing student education records—to investigate the state of special education. The overwhelming theme: children are not receiving legally-required disability services in school, and instead face disproportionate discipline, often ending up ...
Missing Income - Searchlight New Mexico
WEBJan 28, 2021 · Missing Income. ALBUQUERQUE — Nearly every day for the past ten months, Lina, 23, has worked as a personal care assistant for Lisa Langrehr, a 60-year-old woman who is paralyzed on her right side. It’s been a full-time job for Lina — from 8 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon, seven days a week, she’s helped Langrehr take showers ...
'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 ...
New Mexicans asked to repay unemployment benefits that the …
WEBFeb 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 ...
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
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