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Sara Solovitch
Sara Solovitch is the editor of Searchlight New Mexico. She supervised its launch in January 2018 with the Child Well-Being Project, an investigation into the plight of children and families in New Mexico. Before coming to Searchlight, she published investigative and long-form stories in Esquire, Wired, Politico, and the Washington Post. As a staff reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, she covered education, courts and special projects. A former health columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, Sara also has traveled throughout New Mexico and Alaska while reporting for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on health care in under-served areas. Her book "Playing Scared: A History and Memoir of Stage Fright" was published by Bloomsbury in 2015.
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Land commissioner: Most candidates decline to make their case
We asked the five land commissioner candidates how they would steward our public trust lands and use their office to improve conditions for New Mexico’s children. Two responded.
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Growing a governor
We asked the four gubernatorial candidates about their childhoods, to understand how their formative years shaped their thinking about what we regard as the most critical issue confronting New Mexico.
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Chalk, books and metal detectors: A conversation about the ‘prisonization’ of schools
UNM Law Professor Maryam Ahranjani proposes a sensible national response to the Parkland, Fla., mass shooting.
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Something must be done for our children. The time is now
Addressing our problems will without question require massive investment. Failure to do so will cost the state far more.