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Ty's Take The voting machine changeover is done, Dominion's out and Liberty Vote's in, and yes, the politics of it landed a little sideways around here. But here's the thing worth sitting with: the machines themselves haven't changed. What matters
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Ty's Take Election season here tends to bring out the idealists, which is fine. We heard candidates talk education and worker benefits this week, the things people actually need to live. But there's something worth watching in how Silver City sits at the crossroads of two
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Ty's Take There's a lot of noise in the valley right now about who's running what and why they won't say what they mean, but if you want to know what actually matters to people around here, skip the political letters and
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Ty's Take A community arguing with itself about what's real is a community that needs to sit down together, and it looks like folks around here are trying. The Mountain Chile Cha Cha brought people out, the Blessing of the Animals will bring them out again,
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Ty's Take Betty Joan Essington spent ninety years in this life, from the Depression straight through to now, and that's a long time to watch a place change. The aquatic center keeps coming up at council meetings without getting resolved, which tells you something about how
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Ty's Take Laclede County's 911 system is getting the attention it's been needing, and if the county commission moves forward with these upgrades, it won't be a moment too soon. Our emergency services have been running on infrastructure that's older
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Ty's Take Obituaries in a town like this read like chapters from the place itself. Coralie Bailey Carrier and Bernie Carrillo, ninety-two, both belonged to the kind of Las Cruces that built this valley before the subdivisions came pushing north from the border and the university started
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 88° Sunny · Tonight 59° Mostly Clear · Thursday 86° SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take Trooper Justin Hedrick did what the job demands when he spotted that wrong-way driver threading
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Ty's Take Eight million dollars is a lot of money in a county seat of two thousand people, which is why Houston's bond issue on the November ballot deserves hard thinking from anyone who pays property taxes around here. The city council is moving forward on
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Ty's Take Losing someone at 92 means the valley loses a witness to better times and harder times both, the kind of person who remembers when water meant everything and still does. Bernie Carrillo carried that memory forward into a long life here, and the people who knew
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Ty's Take Ozarks Healthcare showing up with vaccination clinics in the smaller communities around here makes sense, and it's the kind of practical medicine that doesn't require much fanfare. These days you've got to go where people actually are, not wait for
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Ty's Take The state park pass program for New Mexico veterans just hit its first birthday, and that's worth noting in a place where a lot of us know someone who served. Free access to our state parks sounds like a small thing until you realize