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Ty's Take Truth or Consequences has been dancing around its housing shortage for years, watching younger families and workers get priced out or driven toward bigger towns where a paycheck goes further. The city commission's move toward tiny homes won't solve everything—it never
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Ty's Take Wind's been the story out here for three days running, and it's hammering us from both ends—literally trying to blow us off the map while it's pushing that Bear Fire toward some better containment numbers. That's the
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Ty's Take The town's looking at picking up the old Wyndham properties, which sounds like a straightforward real estate move until you sit with it a minute—this is what happens when a resort town finally admits it can't leave everything to the private
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Ty's Take A seven-year-old from Stover is gone, killed in a utility vehicle accident that'll sit heavy in this county for a long time—the kind of loss that makes you look at your own kids different, makes you think twice about what we
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Ty's Take Milton Johnson's been weaving straw hats in Santa Fe for longer than most of us have been alive, and the fact that one of his creations goes for twenty-five grand tells you something about what happens when a man refuses to cut corners
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Ty's Take The water district's 24 percent rate increase won't sit easy with anybody living in the Heights, and that's the kind of number that deserves a hard look before it gets rubber-stamped. Folks out there already pay attention to their
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Ty's Take The festival's back, Metcalf's getting recognition, and the branding crews are still moving cattle the way their fathers and grandfathers did—which says something about what holds in this country when everything else is shifting. You can read a lot into a
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Ty's Take When a slow week hits Alamosa, you're looking at the kind of news that actually matters—kids learning to handle horses at the Extension clinic, old classmates from Centauri finding their way back, music pulling people into Society Hall like it always has. That&
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Ty's Take Milton Johnson spent fifty years in that hat shop on New York Avenue turning felt and ribbon into something that looked like it came from another century, and most of us just walked past without thinking much about it. But that's how it works
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Ty's Take Sixteen school districts hitting perfect marks on bus inspections is the kind of news that doesn't make anybody's blood race, but it ought to. You're talking about mechanics and drivers and fleet coordinators who've made safety routine enough
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Ty's Take The Supreme Court's Texas v. New Mexico decision lands at exactly the wrong moment for a town built on water it doesn't fully control—and that's before you look at how Truth or Consequences actually pays its bills. A city
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Ty's Take A quarter million dollars gone because two parties couldn't find middle ground—that's what the museum standoff cost this town, and it's the kind of wound Silver City can't afford to keep picking at. We've got