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Ty's Take When a town the size of Deming loses someone like Kyle Busch—a guy who made it to the absolute top of his sport and kept winning—it hits different than the usual celebrity news that scrolls past. But what sticks with me is that our
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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 A wrong-way driver on I-10 killed someone this week, and now there's a homicide charge on the books—the kind of tragedy that hits different in a town like ours where everybody's either related to somebody or knows somebody who
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Ty's Take Father's Day's coming up and somebody's got to think about it, which apparently is the job of a radio station on a Wednesday morning. Look, it's not a bad instinct—out here we've got a lot
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Ty's Take Kyle Busch was 41 years old, which means a whole generation of kids in this town grew up watching him tear up a racetrack—some of them probably out in the garage right now working on their own machines, dreaming the same dream. You don'
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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
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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