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Ty's Take The body found this week belongs to someone's daughter, someone's neighbor, someone who walked these roads. The details are still coming out, the way they always do in a place this size, where news travels faster than the Rio Grande runs in
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Ty's Take The water story never stops being the water story up here, and this week the Rio Grande SUN's piece on our mayordomos—those men and women who manage the acequias that have kept these valleys alive for four hundred years—reminds us why. You
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Ty's Take The state's push for higher oil well bonding up north hits different when you're standing on land that's been in families since the Spanish land grants, watching the drill rigs move closer every year while the water table conversation never
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Ty's Take You can drive these high roads a long time before you see another soul, which is maybe why folks up here forget how fast things can happen—how quick a mistake becomes a record, how a bad afternoon turns into something the whole valley hears about
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Ty's Take Tuesday must've been one of those days when the wildlife and the locals were both running hard through the valley. A man got himself chased twice—law enforcement on his heels, which is the kind of headline that doesn't usually end clean—
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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