Ty's Take You get a week like this and you see the machinery of the region working the way it's supposed to. New highway patrol troopers graduating means younger officers cycling into stations across these counties, which matters more than most folks realize when you'
Ty's Take The airport water line question keeps coming back around, doesn't it? Every few years somebody floats the idea of running infrastructure out to Spaceport America, and every few years the math doesn't work or the money isn't there or both.
Ty's Take The screwworm alert ought to get everybody's attention around here, because that's not some distant range problem—it's in our backyard and it hits both sides of what keeps this county alive. A rancher loses cattle to parasites while an
Ty's Take The housing authority holding rents steady at Jane's Place and The 505 next year is the kind of news that doesn't make headlines scream, but it matters more than most people realize. When you've got young families and service workers
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Ty's Take There's a reason a town like this one, sandwiched between the reservation, the mountains, and all the people passing through looking for healing or escape, keeps pulling together groups around the question of what we're actually doing here. The Spiritual Experiences Group
Ty's Take Every election season up here on the hill, you get a reminder that this place thinks different. We've got our Daughters of the American Revolution pinning medals on Navy veterans, early voting drives wrapped in revolutionary rhetoric, gallery tours of visual poetry, and a
Ty's Take Old photographs have a way of anchoring a town to what it was, which matters more in a place like Lebanon than most folks realize. These pictures, whatever they show, are reminders that this crossroads has always been about movement and making things, about people passing
Ty's Take A bead shop opening downtown might not sound like front-page material, but in a city that's been watching its old commercial core get hollowed out for twenty years, every storefront that gets a fresh coat of paint and a new sign matters. Las
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Ty's Take A bead business opening in Las Cruces doesn't sound like much until you remember what beads mean in this part of the world. They're tied to craft, to tradition, to the kind of handwork that's kept families fed and connected
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Ty's Take School's coming back and so is the rush, which means it's time to remember what every parent and driver in Luna County already knows but needs to hear again: slow down in those school zones. Kids move fast and don't
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Ty's Take The Rio Grande SUN picked up 43 awards at the New Mexico Press Association banquet, which says something about doing hard work in a small place where nobody's getting rich but everybody knows what matters. That's what happens when you cover land
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Ty's Take Scott Twito's move to interim U.S. attorney leaves Yellowstone County without its top prosecutor right in the middle of an election year, and that timing matters more than the usual bureaucratic shuffle. Whether you see Adam Chenoweth's challenge to Sheriff Kent
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Ty's Take A man from Alamosa running hot enough to trigger a high-speed chase and a SWAT response, a yearling bear pushed down from the high country by drought looking for anything to eat, and CPW closing off stretches of the Rio Grande to let what fish
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Ty's Take El Rito Media's haul of 43 awards up in Santa Fe last week is the kind of thing that gets overlooked in a town this size, but it shouldn't. These papers, including our own, won for reporting on everything from schools to
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Ty's Take The Quill's sweep at the state press awards this year says something worth noting about a small-town newsroom: when you're covering ground that matters to people, when you're showing up at the stockyards and the school board and the
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Ty's Take The copper mine debate keeps circling back to the same hard question, and today's hearing on power demands just made it sharper. You can't run an operation like Copper Flat without juice, and you can't pretend the grid out here
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Ty's Take Wind's coming down off the mountains today and it's the kind that makes you want to stay inside with the coffee pot, which is fine because the Sixth Judicial District Court Judicial Nominating Commission has some work to do anyway. When those
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Ty's Take The SteamPlant's got dog races lined up for Oktoberfest, which is either the best idea anybody's had all year or proof that we've finally lost our minds from too much sun and river water, and honestly it could go either
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Ty's Take Commodity Day doesn't make the statewide news, but any farmer or rancher in Phelps County knows what it means: a chance to connect with folks who buy what you're selling, to move product, to keep the machinery running another season. That our
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Ty's Take The courthouse renovation got the planning commission's blessing this week, which means we're one step closer to seeing what comes next for that building downtown. But the real conversation happening in those meeting rooms, and probably over coffee at the usual spots,