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Alamogordo Daily Digest Sunday, June 28, 2026

Ty McDuffey

28 Jun 2026 — 1 min read

Ty's Take

Seventy-five years back, this paper was running stories about a world still getting used to the atomic age—Trinity had been dust for a year, and Alamogordo was trying to figure out what it meant to live downwind of that kind of history. Fast forward three quarters of a century and we're still wrestling with the fallout, just in different forms. Rep. Harlan Vincent's push to get serious about SNAP benefits hits different when you understand that hunger in rural New Mexico isn't some policy abstract—it's a neighbor skipping meals so the kids don't. The same ground that made this town matter to the Space Age still grows people who work hard and still come up short. That gap between what we've got and what we need hasn't changed much since 1949.

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