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Ty's Take Primary day in Conejos County always draws the same crowd—folks who've voted the same way since their grandfathers did, a handful of swing voters who actually read the mailers, and the poll workers who've been opening that same church basement since
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Ty's Take Most folks around here know the difference between having time and taking time, and that gap's been widening for years. The water's been good to this basin when we've had it, and whether someone's casting a line at
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Ty's Take When a neighboring county's audit comes back stamped "poor" because of illegal debt and misconduct in the sheriff's office, it's a reminder that the machinery of local government only runs clean when people are paying attention—and when
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Ty's Take The fourth bond measure in as many years tells you everything you need to know about where the money's going around here—water systems that can't keep up, roads that never stop crumbling, and wastewater infrastructure that's playing catch-up
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Ty's Take The museum director's indictment lands hard in a town where cultural institutions are supposed to be pulling people together, not tearing themselves apart—especially when we're still building what Silver City's going to be in another ten years. You can
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Ty's Take There's a peculiar moment every summer when this valley catches fire—literally and figuratively—and people show their true colors. The Aspen Acres fire pushing toward fifty percent containment is the real story here, along with South Arkansas Fire Protection District doing what it
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Ty's Take The Phelps County Democrats held their stump picnic last weekend, which means somewhere around here a handful of people sat under trees eating potato salad while a few candidates made their case for the November ballot. It's the kind of event that doesn'
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Ty's Take Fifty-eight thousand visitors rolled through Archuleta County over the Fourth, which tells you something about where this place sits in the world's imagination these days—and something about the weight that puts on our roads, our water system, and the folks who actually
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Ty's Take The bear cub advisory buried in today's briefing says something true about how we live up here now—the wildlife is pushed closer, we're building higher on the plateau, and every summer the line between our world and theirs gets thinner. Meanwhile
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how NMSU keeps threading the needle between what it was and what it's becoming. The university's always been the spine of this valley—Aggie football on Saturday, research dollars flowing into the ag college, kids
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Ty's Take Two house fires in two days—one in Stover where a dog did what neighbors sometimes don't, and another in Barnett where three firefighters got trapped when the ceiling gave way—is the kind of stretch that reminds you this region runs on volunteer
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Ty's Take Slow week in the big scheme of things, but the pages tell you what's really going on around here—a man running fences down in Licking, another fellow light-fingered with someone else's electric motorcycle, a couple folks who shouldn't