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Ty's Take A rape case pleaded down to a lesser charge is the kind of story that leaves you wondering what happened in the room where the deal got made—what the victim heard, what the evidence really showed, what the system offered as the best available outcome.
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Ty's Take There's a weight to the news coming down the valley this week that sits heavier than usual. A baby dead, officers who knew something and didn't report it. A woman missing. A shooting in Vallecitos on a Friday night. A restraining order
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Ty's Take Deb Haaland's got a lot of pull in Santa Fe these days, and her endorsement of Garcia Richard in the state house race landed in this week's Sun like a stone in still water—the kind that creates ripples all the way
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Ty's Take The Chama's running cold and clear this time of year, which is about the only thing a lot of folks around here want to think about come July—never mind the heat or whatever trouble's brewing in town. We've got
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Ty's Take Fiesta season is already spinning up down the valley, which means the whole corridor—from here in Chama country all the way south through Abiquiú and into Española—is about to remember who it is and where it comes from. These aren't tourist pageants
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Ty's Take The men and women who run schools and water associations and county services up this way don't make the news much until something shifts—a principal moves on, a budget request lands on a commissioner's desk, a rule gets written that ripples
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Ty's Take When a sexual abuse case gets pleaded down, the details matter less than what it says about how justice moves—or doesn't—in a county where everybody knows everybody and the courthouse is smaller than most folks' living rooms. Up here in Rio
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Ty's Take Violence over nothing—a cigarette, a workplace argument that turns into hands around somebody's throat—tells you something about the pressure cooker this country has become. You can blame the heat, blame close quarters in small towns, blame whatever you want, but when two
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Ty's Take Hard to know what to lead on when you've got the Garlic Festival coming back—that's pure Abiquiú valley joy, the kind of weekend that reminds you why people drive up from Santa Fe and why the locals tolerate it—sitting right
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Ty's Take Fire took two people out of La Mesilla last week, the kind of thing that hits different up here where your nearest help is twenty minutes away by truck and your neighbor might be the only ladder you've got. Meanwhile, down valley someone'
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Ty's Take There's something worth paying attention to when a mobile clinic schedules a stop up here in July—it means somebody finally noticed that getting to a doctor's office in Española or Santa Fe isn't so simple when you're
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Ty's Take Fire season's already here and we haven't hit the worst heat yet—the burn ban going into effect this week is the kind of thing folks up here know to take seriously, whether you're running cattle on a land grant