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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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