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Ty's Take Seventy-nine dollars' worth of merchandise and an arrest—that's what it cost somebody at a store in our territory this week, which tells you something about the state of things when desperation or thoughtlessness lands you in front of a judge over
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Ty's Take Somebody in this valley beat up a seventeen-year-old badly enough that a forty-five-year-old is now facing charges, and that's the kind of thing that used to stay quiet in small towns—got handled family-to-family or not at
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Ty's Take The sheriff's race this cycle is shaping up the way these things do in small counties—two people who know the land and the people, who've both got roots here, squaring off over who gets to hold the job for the next
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Ty's Take The Democratic primary result shouldn't surprise anybody up here—Haaland's got deep roots in the valley, understands the water politics and the land-grant issues that keep folks awake at night, and she's been doing the work long enough that
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Ty's Take You don't need much to shake a valley this size—a few names, a few items walked out of stores that weren't paid for, and suddenly everybody's doing the math on who knew what and when. The shoplifting ring that
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Ty's Take Bail decisions and dropped charges tend to move fast through a small county—one day a name's in the system, the next day it's not, and the courthouse gossip fills in whatever the paperwork leaves blank. What matters more than the legal
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Ty's Take A man from Alcalde pleading guilty to felonies, the Senior Center back open, Holy Cross Catholic School shutting its doors—three pieces of news that tell you something about what's happening in this country right now, and none of it's particularly easy
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Ty's Take Spring's running late up here again, and the Cumbres & Toltec delays opening are hitting harder than usual because everybody's been waiting on that payroll. A tourist railroad doesn't sound like much if you're not actually living on
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Ty's Take The valley's got its share of trouble this week—assault charges, drunk aggression, a fight that landed someone in the system—which tells you something about the strain that comes with summer crowding and the heat bearing down on people living close together up
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Ty's Take The Barela situation up in Rio Arriba is the kind of mess that sticks around longer than anybody wants it to—a judge telling the county GOP chair he's got to go, and now the real work begins, which isn't the legal
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Ty's Take Gregg Hull's been around this country long enough to know that the real New Mexico isn't Santa Fe or Albuquerque—it's places like Chama and Abiquiú, where the land grants run deep and the water fights never really end. When
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Ty's Take Water rights and political ambition don't usually move the needle up here in Rio Arriba, but when Doug Turner starts talking governor's race, folks north of Española are listening—not because anyone's ready to pack him off to Santa Fe,