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Ty's Take The valley's got its share of trouble this week—assault charges, drunk aggression, a fight that landed someone in the system—which tells you something about the strain that comes with summer crowding and the heat bearing down on people living close together up
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Ty's Take Zoning fights usually bore people senseless until they can't afford their rent anymore. The city council's pushback on duplexes in N3 neighborhoods says something true about how we're thinking—or not thinking—about growth in Billings. We've got
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Ty's Take Joe Martinez taking over SLV Federal Bank is the kind of continuity this valley needs right now. He's not some transplant from Denver or a suit flown in by a holding company—he's built his career here, understands what it means when
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Ty's Take We're in that stretch of an election year where every candidate with a shot at the Governor's Office comes through town telling us what New Mexico needs, and half the time they're not wrong—we do need better water management,
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Ty's Take You hear about that Norfork woman who nearly got taken by a scam, and you're glad the deputies caught it in time—that's the kind of thing that doesn't make the news until it's too late for somebody
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Ty's Take The burglary string hitting our county the last few weeks reminds you that trouble doesn't care much about population size—six thousand people means six thousand places to case, and nowhere's really too small to bother with. What matters now is whether
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Ty's Take When a town the size of Silver City turns out for Memorial Day and then spills into Gough Park for Blues Fest the same weekend, you're looking at people who still know how to gather—rain or shine, and apparently after a structure fire
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Ty's Take Water's always been the argument that matters most in high country, and this week the Southwestern Water Conservation District found their person to settle some of it—at least on paper. The new general manager's got to thread a needle that gets
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman spent her life in this valley—the kind of person who knew everybody's name at the feed store and remembered which families had been here since before the interstates came through. Those aren't small things in a place
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of recklessness that shows up when young people think the lake is theirs alone—and this weekend we got a reminder that it comes in more flavors than just bad judgment behind the wheel of a boat. An 18-year-
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration this week hits different when you're standing in Luna County watching the sky the color of old concrete and the fire danger map painted red from here to the Sacramento peaks. We've been through dry spells
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Ty's Take The Barela situation up in Rio Arriba is the kind of mess that sticks around longer than anybody wants it to—a judge telling the county GOP chair he's got to go, and now the real work begins, which isn't the legal