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Ty's Take The bear cub advisory buried in today's briefing says something true about how we live up here now—the wildlife is pushed closer, we're building higher on the plateau, and every summer the line between our world and theirs gets thinner. Meanwhile
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Ty's Take The news out of LANL Foundation and the county health council this week points to something this town knows but doesn't always say out loud: we're good at the big problems—the physics, the engineering, the infrastructure—but the harder work happens
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Ty's Take You don't have to read far down today's wire before the contrast hits you—a detective in Bernalillo County just got convicted for tipping off drug targets to the DEA, while up here on the Hill the state's handing out
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Ty's Take The McCauley Springs Fire sitting at a hundred percent contained is the kind of headline this town learned to hold its breath over back in 2000 and again in 2011—you don't let yourself relax until the last ember's cold and the
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Ty's Take The Fire Department's push to strengthen wildfire response through statewide partnerships is the kind of talk that gets real attention up here, and for good reason—Cerro Grande and Las Conchas left scars that don't fade, and every household on the plateau
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how this town shows up for its own. St. Baldrick's heads to the brewery, the Kiwanis folks keep grinding on schools and community, the library's doing storytime down in White Rock—these aren't
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Ty's Take The county's new alerts page going live this week is the kind of quiet infrastructure that doesn't make anyone's blood pump until it does—and up here on the plateau, that usually means fire season or something worse. You live
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Ty's Take Walter Bettinger, who lived through most of the atomic age in Los Alamos, passed last week at ninety-three—a reminder that this town's founding generation, the ones who came to the Hill when it was still secret and strange, are leaving us. The news
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Ty's Take Fire assessment complete, monsoon season here, and the county's running a DIY workshop on the eighteenth—which tells you something about where Los Alamos' head is at right now. Between the McCauley Springs burn scar still fresh in people's minds and
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Ty's Take The county's offering free dirt to anybody who wants to haul it off, which sounds like a punchline until you remember we're talking about a place where housing pressure is pushing folks down the hill toward Española, where every square foot costs
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Ty's Take You don't need a PhD to notice that this town runs on infrastructure most of us never think about until something goes wrong—the gas lines under the hill, the water systems, the senior centers where people land when they can't live
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Ty's Take We lost two good neighbors this week—Evelyn Ward, who saw this town built from the ground up on the plateau, and Allen Sherwood, who lived most of his life here watching it change. That's what a slow July Fourth weekend means in a