Alex Heard
@alexheard
Executive editor, Searchlight New Mexico.
“I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women." This is like me saying: "I never wrote a picture in my life of WW2 fighter planes in a dogfight—when I was supposed to be taking notes in Civics or listening in church. I don't draw pictures of aerial combat!"
Today is the 80th anniversary of Trinity. At 1 P.M. Eastern, the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium will dedicate the first permanent public marker to the New Mexicans who died or were made ill by radioactive fallout that nobody told them was coming. searchlightnm.org/trinity-bomb-d…
When the players are given four balls, then discard two based on "looking at them," is there any known idea of how they decide which two to toss off? And do the rejected balls got straight back into the mix?
Planning my Snake Lake visits now! 🐍
World Atlas ranks 4 Mississippi lakes as the most snake-filled water in the state clarionledger.com/story/news/202…
Hi. What do you think is currently the best placed to sell good quality used books and DVDs online? Thanks for your help.
Today marks 3 years at @SearchlightNM for me! (peep our old branding on this bumper sticker I got in 2022) Want to take a minute to stroll through some of my favorite/most impactful stories from these three years …
This is the terrible reality of what happened, masterfully written. I'm so sorry for their loss.
My colleague Aaron Parsley and his family were swept away in their home by the Guadalupe River. His harrowing story and their loss are described in one of the most important pieces @TexasMonthly has ever published. texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
Just over a month after the death of Jaydun Garcia at a CYFD facility, another teenager in foster care, 17-year-old Makamy Anderson, took her own life. searchlightnm.org/new-mexico-chi…
"I saw the monsoon cancel out the haboob" is awesome.
And now this. I saw the monsoon cancel out the haboob before it could cross the Mesilla Valley. Have to love New Mexico weather.
For almost fifty years, an obscure Colorado public-interest law firm has been a recruitment pool for Republican administrations and helped shape conservative agendas, including #Project2025 -- my piece for #5280 Magazine. 5280.com/this-niche-lak…