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Ty's Take The state's push for higher oil well bonding up north hits different when you're standing on land that's been in families since the Spanish land grants, watching the drill rigs move closer every year while the water table conversation never
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Ty's Take The Stillwater mine rejection and the Red Lodge settlement both point to the same hard truth: when something goes wrong out here—whether it's a contract negotiation or a freak gust of wind on a mountainside—people don't move fast toward forgiveness
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Ty's Take The water trial wrapping up this week is the kind of story that doesn't make the evening news anywhere else, but here in the valley it's the story that matters most—because when the lawyers finally pack it in, somebody's
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Ty's Take Steve Pearce's confirmation as BLM director doesn't get much ink in towns like ours, but out here it matters more than most people realize. The man's got New Mexico running through his veins—former congressman, former state party chairman, knows
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Ty's Take Two motorcycle wrecks and a serious car accident all in the same stretch of Howell County—that's the kind of week that reminds you why the ambulance crews around here earn every penny. We've got good people in the EMS service, and
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Ty's Take Water's been the conversation around here since before most of us can remember, but watching Elephant Butte slip lower every season hits different when you see it in the official numbers. The lake that keeps this whole region breathing—tourism, irrigation, ranchers downstream—doesn&
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Ty's Take There's a stretch of county road between Hachita and the interstate that's been gnawing at people for years—dust, potholes, the kind of surface that'll shake your fillings loose if you're not careful. This alert suggests something'
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Ty's Take Wildfire season's still three months out and the smoke's already settling into the valley—which tells you something about what's burning up in the high country and how the wind's running these days. The county health folks are
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Ty's Take The Lab keeps beating the drum about career pathways for the next generation—good work, necessary work—but it's worth asking whether Los Alamos County is actually building the kind of place young people want to stay in once they're trained up.
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Ty's Take When a July Fourth storm knocked out power to half the region, the linemen showed up anyway—same ones who fix the lines after ice storms, who string cable through timber so a family on Shady Glade can watch the news. That's the invisible