Reporter @SearchlightNM. I cover kids, poverty, the environment, and whatever else needs covering. Got a news tip? DM me.
Santa Fe, NM
Joined August 2014
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This week @SearchlightNM reporter Joshua Bowling sits down with Indigenous Activist Jacob Johns.
Watch the interview Friday at 7pm and stream the show on the PBS app. @MrJoshuaBowling #Indigenous #CivilRights #activism #NewMexico
New from me:
Just before this year's legislative session, a secretive group emerged to fight against proposals to cap attorney's fees and other malpractice reforms. Who is New Mexico Safety Over Profit? searchlightnm.org/dark-money…
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Tomorrow, Donald Trump will control nuclear weapons again. In this remarkable series of interviews by @SearchlightNM's Alicia Inez Guzmán, experts discuss what that's likely to mean in terms of arms control, testing, and plutonium pit production. searchlightnm.org/donald-tru…
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Following reporting on Searchlight New Mexico, Attorney General Raúl Torrez announces a civil lawsuit against outgoing WNMU President Joseph Shepard and the Board of Regents
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JUST IN: Following my reporting on @SearchlightNM and state investigations, NM Attorney General Raúl Torrez files motion to block $1.9 million severance payment to outgoing WNMU President Joseph Shepard
Calls it an “egregious misuse of public funds”
The sad irony of this: the state takes kids away from families that are abusing them and using drugs, then warehouses them in state office buildings where they are abused and exposed to drugs (including fentanyl) searchlightnm.org/threatened…
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BREAKING: NM Office of State Auditor announces that Western New Mexico University's leadership has "engaged in the waste of public funds"
The "wasteful," "improper" and "non-compliant" spending includes $214K on travel and $149K on credit cards, including luxury furniture ... 1/
Some good reporting on a weird situation from @MrJoshuaBowling searchlightnm.org/inside-the…
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Politicians, prosecutors, retirees and Mexican cartel operatives have all found themselves drawn to the grandstands of New Mexico’s horse tracks. Now, a heated dispute is costing the industry hundreds of thousands. searchlightnm.org/?p=98526&p…
Some very cool news
Animal migration 🦬 news: I'm stepping down next month as editor of @OutsideMagazine, a place I'll miss a ton. A week after that, I'll start a new job as editor of @SearchlightNM, an amazing Santa Fe-based nonprofit that does powerful investigative reporting all over the state.🍾
There's been a lot of attention paid this week to the @NewMexicoDOJ investigation into Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces. I just got back from there, and found that MMC is just one barrier to care for undocumented residents: searchlightnm.org/life-death…
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ICYMI on @SearchlightNM: When a man awaiting trial went on a hunger strike, the San Juan County jail's response was swift.
They turned off his tap and withheld water for 3 days. When police investigated, nurses and guards alike readily admitted to it
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When a New Mexico inmate went on hunger strike, the jail responded swiftly: Turn off his tap and withhold drinking water for 3 days
When police arrived to investigate, everyone (guards & nurses alike) admitted to it
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Super proud of my fellow @SearchlightNM reporter Alicia Inez Guzman for this one
The winner of the 2024 MOLLY Prize is @SearchlightNM reporter Alicia Inez Guzmán for her powerful investigation, "Buried Secrets, Poisoned Bodies."
searchlightnm.org/buried-sec…
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Ed Williams retweeted
Worth noting that a week removed from independent monitor James Ginger’s latest report, which put @ABQPOLICE in 100% compliance with the DOJ consent decree, his website has yet to publicly share that report, IMR-19, despite its promise to “serve as a repository” of each report
NEW on @SearchlightNM: Basic math errors. Faulty statistics. Conclusions that don’t add up
I’ve analyzed 6,000 pages of independent monitor reports under Albuquerque Police’s consent decree. These are the dozens of problems I’ve found
🧵 of my findings
searchlightnm.org/basic-math…
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❌Want to see the errors for yourself?❌
I put together this annotated document where you can see every single math problem, inconsistency and error, fully explained
Check it out: documentcloud.org/documents/…
NEW on @SearchlightNM: Basic math errors. Faulty statistics. Conclusions that don’t add up
I’ve analyzed 6,000 pages of independent monitor reports under Albuquerque Police’s consent decree. These are the dozens of problems I’ve found
🧵 of my findings
searchlightnm.org/basic-math…
Want to read something crazy?
The glaring errors in these reports, each of which span hundreds of pages, raise troubling questions about the person responsible for compiling them. More to the point, perhaps, is this question: Has anyone even read them?
searchlightnm.org/basic-math…
Can’t wait to listen to this
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Late last year, I was approached by Indigenous Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @connie_walker & her team to help with their latest season of Stolen, focused on the missing/murdered on the Navajo Nation.
It was also 25 years since the death of my uncle.
Ed Williams retweeted
Three months ago, New Mexico issued a $1 million fine to embattled Navajo marijuana grower Dineh Benally and — citing him for “egregious” violations — ordered him to shut down his Torrance County cannabis farm. Benally has done anything but.
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