NEW MEXICO AT RISK IN THE 2020 CENSUS By Christian Marquez / Searchlight NM / You won’t find James Ironmoccasin’s house on Google Maps. …
Native communities harnessing the power of data
By Sara Solovitch / Searchlight NM / Marriages and births. Allies and enemies. Wild game, migration patterns, the number of days of rainfall. For hundreds, …
Where trust counts
The census and NM’s border cities By Ed Williams / Searchlight NM / According to the state tourism bureau, Sunland Park is one of …
The great divide
DEPORTATIONS FORCE FATHER TO LIVE APART FROM HIS FAMILY By Lauren Villagran / Searchlight NM / EL PASO, Texas and VALLE DE JUÁREZ, Mexico …
Here’s how we learned where New Mexico’s vendors are located
By John R. Roby / Searchlight NM Legislators, auditors and business groups have tried for years to answer the question: Where does the state of …
New Mexico is ignoring its own rules on vendor transparency
By John R. Roby / Searchlight NM New Mexico is over a year late in following a law that compels greater transparency in vendor contracts. …
For contracts, New Mexico increasingly looks elsewhere
SEARCHLIGHT ANALYSIS FINDS GROWING RELIANCE ON OUT-OF-STATE VENDORS By John R. Roby / Searchlight NM Billions of taxpayer dollars have flowed out of state …
‘I felt like I was dying’
By Lauren Villagran / Searchlight NM They told me they were going to handcuff me, and I begged them not to do it in front …
New Mexico lawyer faces death threat over work for immigrants
By Lauren Villagran / Searchlight NM SANTA FE — A death threat against immigration attorney Allegra Love launched an FBI investigation and forced the Santa …
