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Ty's Take The water district's 24 percent rate increase won't sit easy with anybody living in the Heights, and that's the kind of number that deserves a hard look before it gets rubber-stamped. Folks out there already pay attention to their bills—
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Ty's Take The festival's back, Metcalf's getting recognition, and the branding crews are still moving cattle the way their fathers and grandfathers did—which says something about what holds in this country when everything else is shifting. You can read a lot into a
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Ty's Take When a slow week hits Alamosa, you're looking at the kind of news that actually matters—kids learning to handle horses at the Extension clinic, old classmates from Centauri finding their way back, music pulling people into Society Hall like it always has. That&
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Ty's Take Milton Johnson spent fifty years in that hat shop on New York Avenue turning felt and ribbon into something that looked like it came from another century, and most of us just walked past without thinking much about it. But that's how it works
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Ty's Take Sixteen school districts hitting perfect marks on bus inspections is the kind of news that doesn't make anybody's blood race, but it ought to. You're talking about mechanics and drivers and fleet coordinators who've made safety routine enough
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Ty's Take The Supreme Court's Texas v. New Mexico decision lands at exactly the wrong moment for a town built on water it doesn't fully control—and that's before you look at how Truth or Consequences actually pays its bills. A city
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Ty's Take A quarter million dollars gone because two parties couldn't find middle ground—that's what the museum standoff cost this town, and it's the kind of wound Silver City can't afford to keep picking at. We've got
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Ty's Take A University of Montana researcher out studying how those big atmospheric river storms actually recharge groundwater in the West—that's the kind of work that matters more than most people realize when you're living on top of your water rights and watching
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Ty's Take The water district staying in Drought Stage 1, the school board wrestling with questions nobody's got easy answers to, Habitat for Humanity pushing a new housing push, and the federal government just now realizing there's a healthcare desert out here—it all
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Ty's Take Three good men from this valley in the paper today—Shannyn Caldwell, Timothy Joseph Hourigan, and George Douglas Jackson, who made it to 70. In a town that's growing as fast as Las Cruces is, where the orchards keep giving way to subdivisions and
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Ty's Take Three powerboat incidents in one Saturday afternoon at the Shootout races, a rescue from the Community Bridge, a fatal crash on a county road—that's the kind of weekend that reminds you the lake doesn't care how many boats are registered or
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, longer still when the questions involve your own law enforcement, but Shannon County is finally getting somewhere with the Tory Sanders case—three people charged with murder, former deputies facing their own reckoning, and the kind