



November 14, 2018
Searchlight awarded Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant
The two-year grant will support news coverage “directed toward child well-being, policy change, and a healthy, just New Mexico."
October 31, 2018
Oh Susana! How governor’s popularity eroded
Martinez will exit as one of the nation’s least-popular governors, with even the Republican who seeks to succeed her saying “New Mexico is in a crisis moment.”
October 31, 2018
Governor-driven understaffing keeps N.M.’s kids at risk
Ushered into office on a conservative wave that swept statehouses around the country, Martinez espoused classic Republican views on small government and fiscal conservatism. Eight years on, she can truthfully say she has kept state government lean.
October 31, 2018
Measuring Martinez on education
Searchlight examined eight education-related claims and promises Martinez made during her two successful campaigns for governor, using publicly available data to learn whether New Mexico has managed to move the needle since then.
October 31, 2018
Grading the team
A look at the Martinez appointees who head the state's three most important agencies for child well-being.
October 25, 2018
Prescription for disaster: New Mexico’s lax oversight puts kids in danger
At least 44 states have introduced formal protocols or programs to boost oversight and monitoring of psychotropic drug use by children. Yet while other states work to limit psychiatric drugs, 30,000 NM children have prescriptions.
October 25, 2018
Warrant: Psychiatrist over-medicated hundreds of children in his care
Albuquerque doctor is under investigation in 36 patient deaths.
October 18, 2018
Experts weigh in on New Mexico’s challenges
We asked five national experts in child well-being, health, education and policy to write short essays in response to recent stories we have covered. Here's what they had to say.
October 17, 2018
Lujan Grisham, Pearce lay out visions for top children’s issues
If any one person has the power to determine the fate of New Mexico’s next generation, it is the next governor.
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