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Ty's Take The Supreme Court's halt on Project Jupiter stings different out here than it might in other towns, because we've been chasing the space economy like a man chasing water in the desert for years now. Tourism dollars, jobs, the whole promise of
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Ty's Take A Ruidoso man facing charges for a crash that killed a teacher reminds us that the mountain roads between here and there don't forgive carelessness, and neither should we. Whatever the details of this case turn out to be, there's a family
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Ty's Take Finding a city attorney in a town this size has never been simple, but watching the position sit vacant long enough to make local news means somebody's legal workload is piling up somewhere, and usually it's the folks trying to get permits
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Ty's Take A bank marking seven decades in Otero County is more than a business milestone, it's a marker of what it takes to stay rooted here through boom and bust, through missile range expansions and water fights that never quite get settled. First National has
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Ty's Take When a police shooting lands on the front page of any small town's paper, it changes the rhythm of what people talk about at the grocery store and the diner for weeks. We don't know yet what happened on that call, what
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Ty's Take Two local people sitting in federal custody on fentanyl trafficking charges, which means somewhere between here and the border, the supply lines that are killing people across this country ran straight through Alamogordo. This isn't some abstract drug war statistic anymore, it's
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Ty's Take When French artists show up to paint the basin and end up sketching unexplained lights in the sky, it says something about who we are and what sticks in people's minds about this place. We're caught between the practical and the mysterious,
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Ty's Take The Tigers took care of business Friday night, which is what you want to see before the real schedule starts grinding in October. Forty-one to thirty-three against Santa Fe says the offense showed up and the defense found its footing, and that matters more
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Ty's Take A woman turns a hundred and her life's work was teaching kids, a young man's earned a scholarship to UNM, and the city pumped the brakes on tearing down Sunspot before somebody figured out what it's actually worth. That'
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Ty's Take Volleyball season's here, and you've got two different angles playing out in the same basin. Tularosa's bringing in new blood to rebuild what used to work, which is the kind of patience a program needs when things have drifted. Over
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Ty's Take You can tell something's shifting out at the high school when a volleyball team starts talking about culture the way you'd talk about a crop that needs tending. The girls at AHS aren't just chasing wins this season, they'
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Ty's Take When the state's lawyers go after Washington over what's hidden in the Epstein files, you can bet there's something about New Mexico that somebody doesn't want talked about. We've had our share of powerful men doing