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An Apache ceremony for the ages | Searchlight New Mexico
by Michael Benanav September 6, 2023. 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 days and into the morning of a fifth.
A nuclear legacy in Los Alamos - Searchlight New Mexico
Aug 15, 2024 — The world’s oldest documented plutonium contamination may not lie in the Chihuahuan Desert at the Trinity Site, where the first-ever atomic bomb ripped open the skies and melted the sand into green glass.
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 ...
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.
Meet our team - Searchlight New Mexico
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.
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
PFAS contaminates drinking water in historic New Mexico village
by Ed Williams February 15, 2024February 29, 2024. During the decades that he’s lived in his home southwest of Santa Fe, Jose Villegas was oblivious to the toxic chemicals that were seeping through the aquifer, slowly spreading under his house in the historic village of La Cieneguilla and into the well that supplied his family with drinking ...
Rachel Mabe, Ed Williams, Author at Searchlight New Mexico
Jun 10, 2020 — Rachel Mabe, Author at Searchlight New Mexico. Rachel Mabe. Rachel Mabe 's work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Oprah Magazine, among other publications. She received a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project to support a story about foreign teachers in American classrooms for the fall 2020 issue of Oxford American ...
A standoff between the housed and the unhoused in Española
Jun 5, 2024 — Homelessness has grown sharply across New Mexico, as it has everywhere in the country. From 2022 to 2023, according to a U.S. government study, the state’s homeless population grew from around 2,500 to 3,800; precise figures are notoriously difficult to calculate and these numbers are likely underestimations. Cities are taking starkly ...