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Ty's Take The political dust settled fast this week when Miyagishima dropped out of the governor's race and threw her support behind GOP nominee Gregg Hull—the kind of move that tells you something about which way the wind's blowing in a state that&
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Ty's Take The news that Ruidoso Downs is shutting down to fix a culvert might seem like a small operational headache, but it's the kind of thing that reminds you how much of life in this basin depends on infrastructure built decades ago and holding on
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Ty's Take The Roswell Tribune's launch signals something worth watching in how news gets told around the basin these days. El Rito Media stepping in while the Daily Record changes hands means the conversation about what matters in Chaves County isn't ending—it'
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Ty's Take The Roswell Record going dark is the kind of thing that sticks with you in this business—not because it's shocking anymore, but because you know exactly which newsroom emptied out and which stories won't get told next week. Small papers in
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Ty's Take There's something about this town that draws people who like to test themselves—maybe it's the altitude, maybe it's the history of pushing limits that seeps into the soil around here. A local triathlete grinding through multiple challenges, both the
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Ty's Take The election map in Otero County's been getting redrawn enough times that most folks have stopped trying to predict which way the wind's blowing come November. We've got military votes, ranching votes, tech economy votes all pulling in different directions,
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Ty's Take You notice something when you read down today's calendar—the rodeos are packed, the Big Give teams are fanned out across town with real work to do, and out at Trotter's place there's still somebody breeding horses like there'
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Ty's Take The Sacramento Mountains are running cold and clear this time of year, which means the creeks up there are doing what they're supposed to do—holding fish that actually want to bite. Word is the upper reaches around Cloudcroft are putting out some decent
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Ty's Take There's something about a town that still wants to mark its history—not just live in it, but stand up and say, here's what we remember, here's who we are. The Gateway Freedom Monument going up says something about Alamogordo
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Ty's Take Summer's when this basin finally opens up—the high country around Capitan cools off enough that folks quit their air-conditioned hiding and remember what a weekend's supposed to feel like. Between the rodeos drawing families from three counties and the lakes warming
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Ty's Take Bad week for the county when a state party treasurer ends up in custody over a fatal hit-and-run, and you've got to wonder how many conversations at Holloman and out in the ranching country are starting with that same disbelief. Meanwhile the rest of
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Ty's Take The Rainbow Futurity trials out at the track draw the kind of crowd that reminds you there's still real money and real passion in horse country around here, even with all the talk about missile ranges and space hotels eating up the basin. Two