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Ty's Take Nobody expects much to happen at a broadcasters' meeting, which probably explains why Haaland and Hull shook hands for thirty seconds and called it a day. This is what passes for a campaign moment in a military town where most folks are too busy with
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Ty's Take Sometimes a town shows you who it is by the things people choose to build in hard times. A new cidery up in High Rolls, a musician's legacy getting its due, a life remembered in these pages—these aren't the kind of
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Ty's Take Adam Hoppes is taking over the Chamber at a moment when Alamogordo's got to decide what it wants to be—a military town riding Holloman's steady payroll, a space tourism destination banking on Virgin Galactic and the museum, or something that makes
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Ty's Take There's something about late spring in Otero County when the all-star rosters come out and the fishing reports turn serious—it's the moment when kids and their parents both remember why they stick around a place like this. Four or five of
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Ty's Take The local guy who took your money to fix what wasn't broken reminds us that trust is the only currency that matters in a town this size—you can't spend it twice, and once it's gone, no election result changes
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Ty's Take Tuesday's primary is going to draw the usual crowd—people who show up every time, and a lot of folks who'll realize at their kitchen table that they forgot it was happening. That's the way it goes in a county
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Ty's Take Sometimes the smallest stories tell you the most about who we are. ENMU-Ruidoso bringing in Clabaugh as athletic coordinator might look like routine staffing news, but up in those mountains where the college's been fighting to keep its footing, it matters—athletics is how
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Ty's Take We're in that stretch of an election year where every candidate with a shot at the Governor's Office comes through town telling us what New Mexico needs, and half the time they're not wrong—we do need better water management,
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Ty's Take The Chamber's got new blood at the helm after Jerrett Perry's retirement, which is the kind of transition that matters more than it looks on the surface—these directors are the ones threading the needle between what Holloman needs, what the ranching
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Ty's Take Anastacia "Tatcha" Thomas was the kind of person this town needs more of—someone who showed up, stayed put, and made things better in the quiet way that doesn't always make the papers until it's too late. We don'
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Ty's Take Money moving through the shadows in a New Mexico primary always leaves a trail, even when somebody's built a nonprofit wall to hide behind. Same voters who trust their neighbors with cattle deals and water rights are supposed to believe they can't
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Ty's Take Steve Pearce took the oath at the Bureau of Land Management with one hand still warm from the Bible, and by sundown four billion dollars in oil and gas leases had already changed hands across public lands that'll never look the same. You can