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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration came down today, and if you've been watching the sky the way most of us have—dry as a popcorn fart since last spring—it lands about three months too late. What matters now is what comes next:
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Ty's Take You're seeing it everywhere this time of year—the animal health alerts stacking up on the radio, the fire season warnings, the pushes to get pets spayed before breeding season hits. It's the sound of Luna County getting itself ready, which is
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Ty's Take Father's Day's coming up fast, and if you're still staring at a blank slate on what to get the old man, you're not alone—most of us wait until the last possible second anyway. The thing about buying
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Ty's Take Kyle Busch dying at 41 hits different when you're in a place like Deming where everybody knows somebody who works with their hands for a living. The man was a competitor—twice a Cup champion, relentless, the kind of driver who made enemies because
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration hit different this morning when you're sitting in Luna County looking at another dry year and thinking about what that means for the chile fields come August. Statewide proclamations are fine for Santa Fe, but down here we&
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Ty's Take Fire season's here, screwworms are back, and somebody's kid died on I-10 because of a wrong-way driver who'd been drinking. Meanwhile the water park's opening, which means summer's coming whether we're ready or not,
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Ty's Take There's something about watching a town decide it needs metal detectors at the middle school and high school that settles in your chest different than reading it in a report. OPENGATE screening at our secondary campuses—that's what we're calling
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Ty's Take The news that Kyle Busch is gone hits different when you're sitting in a town where a lot of folks grew up watching him tear up the track—there's a whole generation of kids around Luna County who had posters on their
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration lands different when you're looking at your well gauge instead of a statewide map, and every farmer from here to the Florida Mountains knows it. New Mexico's been running on fumes for years, but Luna County
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Ty's Take That wrong-way crash on I-10 is the kind of story that stops you cold—one person dead, another facing homicide charges, and somewhere in between a series of choices that can't be unmade. We've all seen the highway safety campaigns, heard the
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Ty's Take You can tell a lot about a town by what it chooses to tear down and what it chooses to protect. Deming's doing both this week—clearing out the Balboa's aging bones to make room for something the community actually needs, while
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Ty's Take Kyle Busch was 41 and at the top of his sport, which is the kind of thing that stops you cold no matter what you think you know about mortality. The racing world lost one of its fiercest competitors, and the rest of us got reminded