Alamogordo Daily Digest Wednesday, May 06, 2026
Ty's Take
The calendar flipped to an election year and suddenly everybody's got something to say about how the region should run itself, which is fine—that's how it's supposed to work. But there's a sharper question buried underneath the rally speeches and the route announcements and the tourism angles: what do we actually do with the kids who fall through the cracks? Sherry Robinson's piece on CYFD asks the hard part that doesn't fit neatly into a stump speech, and it matters more than most of what gets said at any political gathering. This county's built on defense infrastructure and grit, but we don't measure ourselves by missile ranges or museum visits. We measure ourselves by how we handle the ones nobody's looking out for.
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Sherry Robinson: How do we reform CYFD and care for unwanted children?
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