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Ty's Take Duke Rodriguez is running for governor on the kind of platform that plays well in rooms full of donors—tax cuts, border security, the usual Republican checklist. But what catches you out here is that he's talking about it in Alamogordo, where people are
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Ty's Take There's a lawsuit working its way through the courts just south of here that cuts right to something this region's been wrestling with for generations—who belongs, who gets to stay, and what happens when money and property rights collide with the
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Ty's Take The state's new water dashboard is exactly the kind of transparency we've been asking for, and exactly the kind we need to keep asking hard questions about. Santa Fe can track progress on paper all day long, but down here where the
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Ty's Take Summer's hitting Santa Clara hard and fast, which means the real test isn't whether the town can handle the heat—it's whether we can keep the lights on and the pipes running without pricing out the folks who've
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Ty's Take We've gotten used to bear activity shutting things down around here—it's the price of living where we live—but having to close school buildings hits different. Bridger Elementary and the high school both locked their doors this week because of persistent
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Ty's Take Fire restrictions kick in Friday on the forest that surrounds us, which means the season of holding our breath officially begins again. Between the guardrail repairs the county's tackling, the wildfire prep pieces running in the Post, and all the talk about what another
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Ty's Take Water's been mean to us this week—a school bus in the ditch, roads washing out, a semi upended on the highway, and swift water rescues that remind you how fast things can turn when the rain keeps coming. It happens every spring around
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration came down the wire today, and if you've been outside in Luna County the last few weeks you already knew it. The heat's been sitting on us like a blanket, the monsoon's running late,
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Ty's Take That data center north of Billings is going to be the defining conversation around here for the next couple years, whether folks realize it yet or not. Two massive gas power plants to juice a facility that'll sit out there in Broadview—that'
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Ty's Take High-altitude valleys don't get many second acts, but this week Alamosa's getting a couple worth watching. The rocket event brings eyes and dollars to a town that's always scrappy about economic development, and there's something fitting about a
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Ty's Take Holloman's been good to this town—that's the through-line you hear whether it's at the VFW or the Chamber office or watching the flags come down on Memorial Day. An Air Force base that actually works with its civilian neighbors
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Ty's Take Marideth Sisco spent more than four decades writing the stories of this county—the weddings and wrecks, the school board fights, the way people held on through hard times—and if you spent any real time reading the Quill, you knew her voice. She had that