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Ty's Take Crys Matthews coming through Society Hall is the kind of show that reminds you why a college town matters, especially one like Alamosa that's spent decades punching above its weight culturally. The guy writes songs about what's breaking people—inequality, climate, justice—
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Ty's Take Mother's Day hits different in a military town. You've got a guy like Javier Sanchez taking time to say it plain—that his mother shaped who he is—while over at Holloman, families are getting reunited around a holiday that's
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Ty's Take When Hannah Harper walked back into West Plains last week, three thousand people showed up to say welcome home—and that's the kind of thing that matters more than it might look like from the outside. This is a town that roots for its
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Ty's Take The Hummingbird Fire crossing 6,000 acres while we're still in the thick of monsoon season is a reminder that Silver City sits in one of those peculiar spots where we're never quite safe from either too much water or too little—
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Ty's Take When grant money starts moving in this county, you can usually trace it back to somebody sitting in a room saying "we've got a problem worth fixing." The Northwest Energy and Missouri-Madison River Fund just handed out half a million dollars
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Ty's Take One of our own is headed into the national spotlight with the Entrepreneur of Impact Competition, and that's worth noting in a town that's spent the last decade figuring out what comes after the boom-and-bust cycles of tourism and timber.
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Ty's Take The obits this week remind you that Las Cruces has real roots here—men who watched the valley change from orchards to suburbs, who raised families when water meant something different than it does now, who knew the town before the ring roads and the subdivisions
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Ty's Take Stolen sheriff's badges turning up in a meth raid is the kind of detail that sticks with you—not because it's shocking, but because it tells you exactly how small things get when someone decides to cross that particular line. The purple
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Ty's Take Shelter animals finding homes on a Saturday morning in Deming says something about this town that doesn't always make the evening news. DAGSHIP's running free adoptions this weekend, which means somebody's going to walk out with a dog or cat
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Ty's Take An indictment handed down this week in Rio Arriba County means somebody's heading to trial over an assault—the kind of local trouble that usually stays local until the law decides it won't. In a place this size, you know the names
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Ty's Take When a water system at a major hotel can't keep guests safe from Legionnaires', when fuel costs start cutting into regional air service, and when a long-running conservation project loses its grazing permits all in the same news cycle, you're
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Ty's Take Michael Dougherty's been around long enough to know that in a county this size, the job of prosecutor doesn't come with much daylight between the legal work and the political reality—they're the same thing, really, when everybody knows everybody