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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.
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Oct 8, 2024 · Inside the shoplifting bust of Albuquerque Journal editor Patrick Ethridge. by Joshua Bowling October 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.
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Meet 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.
Tapped out in Timberon, New Mexico - Searchlight New Mexico
Jul 5, 2023 · The price to lay new water lines in Timberon alone hovers around $45 million, an impossible sum. The small fraction of property taxes received from Otero County doesn’t add up to much. Infrastructure grants totaling more than $1.1 million have won provisional approval but remain held up by red tape.
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 ...
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 ...
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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.
Whistleblowers file lawsuit against CYFD - Searchlight New Mexico
Jun 24, 2021 · A husband and wife who blew the whistle on the state’s destruction of official records have filed a lawsuit against the New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department, claiming they were fired from their jobs in retaliation. The lawsuit was jointly filed Tuesday by Cliff W. Gilmore, the former head of CYFD’s Public Information Office ...
New map shows plutonium contamination miles away from Los …
Apr 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
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.