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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
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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,
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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
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration this week hits different when you're standing in Luna County watching the sky the color of old concrete and the fire danger map painted red from here to the Sacramento peaks. We've been through dry spells
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Ty's Take A wrong-way driver on I-10 killed somebody this week, and now faces a homicide charge—the kind of story that reminds you how fast things turn catastrophic out here, especially when alcohol's involved. Meanwhile, the town's getting ready for summer
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Ty's Take Metal detectors at the junior high and high school—that's the kind of sentence that would've landed like a joke twenty years ago, but here we are, and Deming Schools is moving forward with OPENGATE screening at the secondary campuses. It'