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Ty's Take Two dismissals in the burglary cases against a man who'd been cycling through the valley the last couple years—the kind of news that lands different depending on which side of the courthouse steps you're standing on. But what sticks is the
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Ty's Take The BLM's oil and gas lease sale landed this week like a stone dropped in still water, the kind of announcement that gets people talking different ways depending on which side of the Chama they live on—and which generation owns the land they&
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Ty's Take Fire's still walking through Mesa de la Gallina country, and by now most of you know what that means—smoke in the valley, ash on the truck windshields, the smell of juniper and piñon carrying down from the high ground. These fires move slow
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Ty's Take Spencer Fordin's move over to Alamogordo is the kind of quiet shift you don't always notice until somebody's desk sits empty. He's been around these papers long enough to know what small-town journalism asks of you—the hours,
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Ty's Take There's a hard reckoning coming to this country, and you can feel it in three stories running today—a crash that burned timber, a federal rule that'll remake how we use the backcountry, and a shooting in Chimayó that left somebody dead
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Ty's Take Three kids from Escalante got their shot this year, and that matters more than most of the noise coming down from Santa Fe these days. In a valley where families have worked the same land for four, five, sometimes six generations, every young person who gets
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Ty's Take Election season always hits different up here in the high country, where most folks are too busy with spring work to pay much attention to what's happening down in Santa Fe or Albuquerque. But when a gubernatorial ticket starts mapping out its route through
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Ty's Take Election season up here tends to move slower than down in Albuquerque or Santa Fe, which gives a man time to think about what actually matters when somebody comes through asking for your vote. The gubernatorial race is starting to take shape, and you'll
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Ty's Take The valley's got a lot of good news mixed in with the hard kind this week—Father's Day dinners coming up, which means families are finding reasons to gather around a table when things feel fractured enough already. But those criminal charges
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Ty's Take The Barela case closing out at the state Supreme Court level means this fight over who runs things in Rio Arriba County—and how—isn't going to get any prettier on the way down. These land-grant communities have long memories and longer grudges, and
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Ty's Take When a week's news runs light on crisis and heavy on the sweet stuff—a new candy treat, a commander's promotion, pilgrims on the trail, a film coming home, and folks gathering to talk energy—you get a pretty clear picture of
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Ty's Take Most days up here you see the slow work—a weaving class, a roping buckle earned, a bicycle shop doing right by the shelter animals, water rules that keep the trout coming back. That's the real rhythm of the valley, the stuff that holds