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Alamogordo Daily Digest Sunday, May 24, 2026

Ty McDuffey

24 May 2026 — 1 min read

Ty's Take

Politics in a military town runs different than most places—you've got federal workers, career officers, contractors, and ranchers all trying to figure out where their bread comes from, and they don't always agree on who gets to make those calls. Deb Haaland's name still carries weight around here, especially in a county where Interior Department decisions touch everything from water rights to land access, and it's worth paying attention to what questions folks are actually asking about her record instead of just the partisan noise. Javier Sanchez's piece on honor reminds us that this community still values something old-fashioned—the kind of straight dealing that used to mean something in small towns. When politics and honor get mentioned in the same breath around Alamogordo, it usually means somebody's taking the measure of where we stand, and that's exactly the conversation we need to be having.

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