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Ty's Take The Red Ryder Rodeo coming up over the Fourth makes you remember what this town was before the hot springs became a destination and everybody's second address. You'll see working stock contractors and families who've been doing this for generations,
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing when a local maker decides to turn creativity into commerce, especially in a town where most of us still think of economy in terms of what grows in the ground or what the university brings in. These plushie artisans are
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Ty's Take Fourth of July weekend's coming in hot around here—literally, with the heat index and the fireworks talk that always follows—but before anybody's loading up the boat with coolers and sparklers, take a hard look at that Highway Patrol warning about
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration lands on a Tuesday like most bad news does, and it lands harder here than it does in Santa Fe. Deming's been living on borrowed water for years—the aquifer doesn't care what the governor declares,
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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 Randy Hafer's electric bills run about thirty bucks a month, which tells you something worth knowing about how this region's going to have to think about energy in the years ahead—not as an either-or fight between the old economy and the
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Ty's Take The commissioners meeting Monday on DA term limits won't make headlines much beyond county lines, but it's the kind of thing that matters more the smaller your town gets—when everybody knows the prosecutor, when you've seen the same faces
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Ty's Take Water's been the conversation in this valley since before any of us were born, but Monday marks something different—a trial that'll shape how the Rio Grande gets split up for the next generation, maybe longer. You can't live here
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of restlessness that settles over a military town when the seasons shift and leadership changes hands—you can feel it in the administrative offices and the gyms and the coffee shops where people watch who's coming in and
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Ty's Take Logan Day-Tarlton's motorcycle crash this week is the kind of loss that ripples through a county this size—the kind that makes you think about every rider you know heading out on the highway, and whether we've stopped saying the things we
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Ty's Take Spaceport America's been the carrot dangled in front of us for years now—the future economy, the jobs, the reason to believe this town's got another chapter ahead—and suddenly it's looking less like a sure thing and more like
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Ty's Take County commissioners calling the Phelps-Dodge property a "historical and ecological asset" is the kind of language you use when you're trying to have it both ways—honoring what the mine meant to Silver City's bones while keeping the door open