Ed Williams

Reporter @SearchlightNM. I cover kids, poverty, the environment, and whatever else needs covering. Got a news tip? DM me.

[New Mexico in Focus @NMinFocus]

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

[Ed Williams @edwreports]

New from me:

[Searchlight New Mexico @SearchlightNM]

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? https://t.co/QOOhCLthlW

[Alex Heard @alexheard]

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. https://t.co/3OiYNGog28

[Searchlight New Mexico @SearchlightNM]

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
https://t.co/6rdEgWFyIu

[joshua bowling🌵 @MrJoshuaBowling]

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”

[Ed Williams @edwreports]

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) https://t.co/ALEAjigkI4

[joshua bowling🌵 @MrJoshuaBowling]

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/

[Ed Williams @edwreports]

Omg
https://t.co/PlsRdW6QQJ

[Ed Williams @edwreports]

Some good reporting on a weird situation from @MrJoshuaBowling https://t.co/BSu1CskOPu

[Searchlight New Mexico @SearchlightNM]

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. https://t.co/uDsn5HApfb

[Ed Williams @edwreports]

Some very cool news

[Alex Heard @alexheard]

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.🍾

[Ed Williams @edwreports]

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: https://t.co/CtSD1SmECz

[joshua bowling🌵 @MrJoshuaBowling]

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
https://t.co/1naW76re4k

[joshua bowling🌵 @MrJoshuaBowling]

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
https://t.co/1naW76re4k

[Ed Williams @edwreports]

Super proud of my fellow @SearchlightNM reporter Alicia Inez Guzman for this one

[Texas Observer @TexasObserver]

The winner of the 2024 MOLLY Prize is @SearchlightNM reporter Alicia Inez Guzmán for her powerful investigation, "Buried Secrets, Poisoned Bodies."
https://t.co/ssLeK01ImL

2/10

[joshua bowling🌵 @MrJoshuaBowling]

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

[joshua bowling🌵 @MrJoshuaBowling]

❌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: https://t.co/kRFkrq2Uvo

[Ed Williams @edwreports]

Want to read something crazy?

[joshua bowling🌵 @MrJoshuaBowling]

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?

https://t.co/H27D50z5Or

[Ed Williams @edwreports]

@Carrionflower1 @SearchlightNM The story says that there are no options and that this kid is an outlier

[Ed Williams @edwreports]

Can’t wait to listen to this

[Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi @clahchischiligi]

1/3:
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.