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Ty's Take A year in on the veterans park pass program and New Mexico's still got something worth talking about, even if it hasn't made the splash some folks hoped for when it rolled out. The idea's solid enough, honest: let the
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Ty's Take Cherry dessert chimichangas aren't something you see on every menu around here, but that's exactly the kind of thing that keeps a place like Bode's or a local kitchen worth walking into. This far north of Santa Fe, we'
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Ty's Take A milk plant suspension, a political fracture inside the Republican Party, and a half-million-dollar renovation bill for South Park Pool. On the surface it looks like three separate stories fighting for attention on a slow August news cycle. But there's something worth
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Ty's Take Fire season's already knocking on the door up here, and nine acres burning on the Rio Grande National Forest near Del Norte is the kind of wake-up call we don't need in late spring. Schrader Creek's still fresh enough
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Ty's Take The Rio Grande commissioners made the right call this week, at least for now, telling the data center people no thanks. You can understand the pitch, sure: jobs, tax base, promise of progress in a valley that's seen plenty of hard times. But this
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Ty's Take The child advocacy center's fundraiser this week is the kind of event that reminds you why small towns matter. A man from Mescalero sits in custody on serious charges, and somewhere in this basin a child is trying to make sense of what happened
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Ty's Take When everything from the VA clinic to MSU to the hospital is working to make things easier on people, you notice something worth mentioning. West Plains has never been the kind of town that waits around for somebody else to fix what's broken, and
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Ty's Take The new police building's finally moving off the drawing board, which means someone's going to start hammering nails and running wire in a town that's seen its fair share of construction delays. Bringing in an El Paso outfit makes sense
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Ty's Take Road crews had NM 92 back open by afternoon yesterday after the flooding that shut it down, which if you've been trying to get anywhere east toward Lordsburg or the I-10 corridor, you already know. The bigger story underneath is how fast conditions
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Ty's Take The Buena Vista school board's got an open seat and they've pushed the deadline out to the end of August, which means if you've been thinking about it, you've still got time to throw your name in. It&
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Ty's Take A quilt show drawing a crowd in Red Lodge says something about who we are up here. There's skill in those stitches, sure, and people come for the colors and the patterns, but there's also something else going on when a room
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Ty's Take The Rio Blanco Fire shutting down Echo Canyon Reservoir for boating while aircraft work overhead is a hard reminder of where we sit right now. Late summer in the San Juans means fire season is real, not theoretical, and the closure tells you CPW is taking