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Ty's Take Couple of courthouse stories this week that don't sit easy, even by the standards of a place where people live hard and sometimes settle things harder. A woman gets beaten for trying to help someone navigate disability benefits—the kind of work that keeps
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Ty's Take Slow Friday in the valley, which means the real work's happening where it usually does—in the clinics and at the markets and in the neighborhoods where people are just getting on with it. Billings Clinic's tenth cohort of internal medicine residents
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Ty's Take Sherry Perdue's been around long enough to know that county commissioner isn't a job you take to make friends—it's one you take because somebody's got to make the hard calls about water, roads, and land use in
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Ty's Take The heat's already settling in hard on the basin, and it's worth noting that the folks running the Family Health Fair this week understood something basic: summer in Otero County doesn't care if you're ready for it. A
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Ty's Take The library's dinosaur summer reading program and the city council's Monday night session on animal control and zoning might seem like separate stories, but they're really the same conversation—what does West Plains look like five, ten years from now?
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Ty's Take Every July, Elephant Butte fills with boats and fireworks and people remembering why they moved here in the first place, and there's nothing wrong with that—a town needs its celebrations. But you can't help noticing the city commission spending its energy
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Ty's Take A kid doing community work gets recognized, first responders are bracing for fentanyl exposure, and the county just voted to keep the mining companies out of Pinos Altos—all on the same news cycle, which tells you something about where Silver City is right now. We&
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Ty's Take Summer tourist season is already on everybody's mind up here, which makes sense—it's the difference between a good year and a lean one for most of the businesses holding on in Red Lodge. The Park Service released their visitor guide for
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Ty's Take The screwworm alert coming down from Colorado Parks and Wildlife is the kind of thing folks around here used to worry about plenty—livestock losses that could gut a ranching operation in weeks—and then stopped worrying about because we'd beaten it back decades
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman's obituary ran in yesterday's paper, and by now half the valley's heard she's gone—the kind of woman who showed up, who remembered names, who didn't need to make a show of
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Ty's Take Two fatalities on our highways this week, a couple more serious injuries, and that's just what made the scanner before Friday morning—which tells you something about the stretch we're in. Summer weekends bring more traffic, more speed, more boats full of
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration hit different this morning when you're sitting in Luna County looking at another dry year and thinking about what that means for the chile fields come August. Statewide proclamations are fine for Santa Fe, but down here we&