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Ty's Take The city's rolling out AI software for the police department while launching a mental health initiative aimed at young people—which tells you something about where we're at right now, doesn't it? We're trying to catch problems faster
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Ty's Take The GPS jamming that brought down that medical plane near Capitan is the kind of thing that lands differently out here than it does in a congressional hearing room—four people dead, a wildfire sparked, and a hard reminder that the tests and operations happening across
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Ty's Take The Boys & Girls Club feeding kids through the summer while parents work harvest and hay season—that's the kind of thing that doesn't make the weather forecast or the state news, but it's exactly what holds a county together
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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