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Ty's Take Randy Hafer's electric bills run about thirty bucks a month, which tells you something worth knowing about how this region's going to have to think about energy in the years ahead—not as an either-or fight between the old economy and
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Ty's Take The commissioners meeting Monday on DA term limits won't make headlines much beyond county lines, but it's the kind of thing that matters more the smaller your town gets—when everybody knows the prosecutor, when you've seen the same faces
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Ty's Take Water's been the conversation in this valley since before any of us were born, but Monday marks something different—a trial that'll shape how the Rio Grande gets split up for the next generation, maybe longer. You can't live here
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of restlessness that settles over a military town when the seasons shift and leadership changes hands—you can feel it in the administrative offices and the gyms and the coffee shops where people watch who's coming in and
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Ty's Take Logan Day-Tarlton's motorcycle crash this week is the kind of loss that ripples through a county this size—the kind that makes you think about every rider you know heading out on the highway, and whether we've stopped saying the things
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Ty's Take Spaceport America's been the carrot dangled in front of us for years now—the future economy, the jobs, the reason to believe this town's got another chapter ahead—and suddenly it's looking less like a sure thing and more like
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Ty's Take County commissioners calling the Phelps-Dodge property a "historical and ecological asset" is the kind of language you use when you're trying to have it both ways—honoring what the mine meant to Silver City's bones while keeping the door
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Ty's Take Our fire departments are training together at the new Fireboot Camp, Town Pump's throwing three-quarters of a million dollars at the problem, and nobody's pretending this is some feel-good story about community spirit—it's survival math. Wildfire season
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Ty's Take Day Lumber hitting a hundred years out here is the kind of thing that stops you cold if you've been paying attention to what's happened to timber towns across the West. This outfit has weathered the spotted owl wars, the downturn, the
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Ty's Take Summer's here and the TV guide is running thick—which tells you something about how folks around the Valley are spending their evenings when the heat hits 105 by mid-afternoon. Can't blame anybody for that. You finish up at the pecan
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Ty's Take When your sheriff and prosecutor can't agree on body camera footage, somebody's credibility walks out the door—and it's usually the public's faith in both of them. The standoff brewing down here over those videos isn't
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Ty's Take A wrong-way driver on I-10 killed someone this week, and now there's a homicide charge on the books—the kind of tragedy that hits different in a town like ours where everybody's either related to somebody or knows somebody who