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Ty's Take Up here we're used to watching big decisions get made somewhere else—Santa Fe, or further down the Rio Grande—and then having to live with them. This week's mix of budget cuts, legal pressure, and personnel changes reads like that same
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Ty's Take You don't have to live up here long to understand how national politics lands different when you're six thousand feet up and forty miles from the nearest interstate. Duke Rodriguez getting a cease-and-desist from Trump's lawyers over some
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Ty's Take Sentencing day in the valley always leaves things quieter than they should be—the kind of quiet that comes after somebody's future gets decided in a courtroom sixty miles away, and everybody who knew them has to reckon with what that means for their
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Ty's Take A wild turkey got tangled in power lines up the valley this week—the kind of thing that stops being funny the moment the lights go out and you're standing in your kitchen at dinnertime trying to remember where you keep the candles. Meanwhile,
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Ty's Take Nobody wants to write the police blotter story, but it's the one that matters most some days—especially up here where you know half the people involved, directly or through blood. A vehicle theft that gets blamed on addiction isn't just a
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Ty's Take When a candidate gets arrested after a crash, when courts uphold a conviction, when auditors find problems in how the city spends money—those are the kinds of headlines that make you wonder what's really going on beneath the surface up here. We'
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Ty's Take You don't have to live here long to know that money moves slow in the high country—court settlements take years, school budgets get trimmed to the bone, and when two kids from up north land scholarships, the whole corridor notices. The four-day
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Ty's Take Spring's late this far north, but if El Vecino's telling folks it's time to get the leafy stuff in the ground, then the soil temperature's probably right and the frost window's closing fast enough to take
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Ty's Take When a man who wore the badge pleads guilty, the whole valley feels it different than when somebody else does. There's a particular weight to it—the betrayal of a trust that doesn't get written back into the ledger easy, especially up
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Ty's Take Bail hearings tend to get lost in the noise of bigger court dockets, but when a prosecutor argues for no bail at all, something in the case has crossed a line that even judges take seriously. The Chimayó man in question is sitting in a cell
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Ty's Take An indictment handed down this week in Rio Arriba County means somebody's heading to trial over an assault—the kind of local trouble that usually stays local until the law decides it won't. In a place this size, you know the names
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Ty's Take Court dockets don't usually tell you much beyond the mechanics of who did what and what the judge decided, but when you stack up a molester doing fourteen years, an ATV incident moving toward indictment, and a no-confidence letter landing on the sheriff&