Posts by Laura Paskus

Coming up this week, we’ll air an interview with Searchlight New Mexico’s investigative reporter Alicia Inez Guzmán, who covers New Mexico’s nuclear legacy and future — and the New Cold War.   In that conversation, Guzmán and I dive deep into her award-winning story, “Buried secrets, poisoned bodies,” the illegal autopsies scientists at Los Alamos…

Earlier this year, tenth graders from Thoreau High School wrote to media outlets and officials across the state, drawing attention to a recommended cleanup plan from the federal government. Across the Navajo Nation, contaminated uranium mines have been polluting the air and water and making people sick for generations. As part of a plan to finally…