Alamogordo Daily Digest Sunday, June 07, 2026
Ty's Take
Nobody expects much to happen at a broadcasters' meeting, which probably explains why Haaland and Hull shook hands for thirty seconds and called it a day. This is what passes for a campaign moment in a military town where most folks are too busy with their actual jobs to care much about the theater—but that brief encounter matters more than it looks. In Otero County, where federal land and water policy hit home harder than anywhere else, these candidates will eventually have to say what they actually plan to do, not just wave at each other in a hallway. For now, we'll take the fact that they showed up at all as a sign somebody still thinks Alamogordo's worth talking to.
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Candidates Haaland and Hull Briefly Meet at New Mexico Broadcasters Meeting
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