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Ty's Take Michael Dougherty's been the district attorney here long enough that most folks have forgotten he ever had to run for the job. That's usually when a prosecutor knows he's doing something right—when the position stops feeling like politics and
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of Thursday afternoon energy in a town like this—when the weather breaks just enough that people start remembering there's life to be lived beyond keeping the heat on, and suddenly you've got a comedy playing
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Ty's Take Alamogordo High's softball team made the state tournament on heart and timing, which is about all you can ask of kids who've been grinding since February. They came up short this week—that's how tournaments work—and somebody's
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in that Walmart-Amazon race to speed up deliveries out here—because the real winner isn't going to be whichever company cuts a few days off shipping times, it's going to be whoever figures out that rural
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Ty's Take The pool opens Memorial Day weekend, which used to mean summer was really here—now it mostly means another round of belt-tightening for families already watching their utility bills climb. The hummingbird fire's contained but the fire watch stays active, which anybody who'
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Ty's Take The county's taking a hard look at what we've actually got to work with when it comes to tourism—inventory and strategy, they're calling it—and that's the kind of unglamorous thinking that keeps a place from getting
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Ty's Take The pattern's becoming hard to miss: fire code, hydrant pressure, reconstruction scrutiny, and now wildfire resilience standards all landing on the table at once. That's not coincidence in a town ringed by National Forest where the last big burn is still fresh
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Ty's Take Nearly two hundred boats towed off the lake in one season tells you something about how fast things can go wrong out there—and how many people aren't ready when they do. Between the fuel prices climbing, the weekend traffic building up, and all
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, longer still when the people supposed to be looking for them end up in the dock themselves. The charges coming down now against three people in the Tory Sanders case and the ongoing reckoning with former
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Ty's Take Kid from Albuquerque, couple hours north, drove down to Deming to rob somebody and ended up pleading guilty to it—which means the system worked the way it's supposed to, mostly, but also means we're still the place people come to when
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Ty's Take When a candidate gets arrested after a crash, when courts uphold a conviction, when auditors find problems in how the city spends money—those are the kinds of headlines that make you wonder what's really going on beneath the surface up here. We'
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Ty's Take The rails that built this place are mostly history now, which tells you something about how fast a region can remake itself when the economics shift. We've gone from empire to adaptation—coal giving way to refining and healthcare, the old transportation networks replaced