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Ty's Take Milton Johnson's been weaving straw hats in Santa Fe for longer than most of us have been alive, and the fact that one of his creations goes for twenty-five grand tells you something about what happens when a man refuses to cut corners or
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Ty's Take Water's tight up here, always has been, but the Los Alamos Co-op's push for a hundred grand tells you something about where the real pressure sits these days—not on the Chama or the Abiquiú watershed, but on the smaller operations trying
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Ty's Take An Abiquiú man walks out of a courtroom acquitted, a shoplifter runs from the law down roads most of us know by heart, and somewhere in those northern briefs is the small machinery of how things actually work up here—who got hired, who's
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Ty's Take Couple of courthouse stories this week that don't sit easy, even by the standards of a place where people live hard and sometimes settle things harder. A woman gets beaten for trying to help someone navigate disability benefits—the kind of work that keeps
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Ty's Take An inmate dies in custody, someone's siphoning gas out at the Coronado, and up the road a man's under the influence of something that has the law worried—it's the kind of week that reminds you how thin the line
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Ty's Take Twenty-one charges out of one shoplifting case is the kind of number that stops you cold—speaks to either a serious pattern or a system that's learned to document everything it can when someone finally gets caught. Either way, it's a reminder
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Ty's Take Fire season's already knocking at the door up here—Seven Cabins burning near Capitan means the Forest Service is watching the high country closer than usual, and anyone with property in the Brazos or up toward the Colorado line better have their evacuation plan
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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 less
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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 all. These days the sheriff's
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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 people
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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