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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.
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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.
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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, …
Whoever is in power—Searchlight New Mexico works to tell the …
Nov 1, 2024 · Searchlight New Mexico was founded to produce investigative journalism in the public interest. Whoever is in power — at any level of government — the mission remains the same.
New Mexico Attorney General sues to stop $1.9 million Joseph …
Jan 9, 2025 · New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is taking outgoing Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard and all five members of the Board of Regents to court over a $1.9 million buyout payment they awarded to Shepard, who state investigators say has routinely engaged in “wasteful” and “improper” spending of taxpayer dollars.
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Jan 16, 2025 · 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.
Burning question: What’s the right place for a solar farm?
Mar 13, 2024 · Solar snapshot. According to AES, the Rancho Viejo Solar Project would produce more than 277,315 megawatt-hours of electricity annually — enough clean energy to offset nearly 120,000 tons of CO2 emissions while powering more than 30,000 homes. Among other details: The project would sit on roughly 680 acres of an 8,200-acre site. Its 200,000 solar panels would generate 96 megawatts of power.
A standoff between the housed and the unhoused in Española
Jun 5, 2024 · City residents demand removal of homeless encampment. Española residents and officials are at a deadlock. On a dusty bank of the Rio Grande, about 30 unhoused people live in limbo — waiting for resolution as the city vacillates between evicting them and allowing them to remain in their tent community.
Aug 16, 2023 · nalism, she has published investigative and long-form sto-ries in Esquire, Wired, Politico and The Washington Post. As a . staff reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, she covered edu
Turmoil at New Mexico cultural affairs office reflects festering …
Mar 16, 2023 · After 34 years of service, Eric Blinman, age 69, had hoped to retire soon and volunteer for the many archaeology programs he’d helped create.