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Ty's Take The city manager's office kept $3.6 million in the piggy bank this year, and you can read that number two ways. One is competent budgeting. The other, if you're watching Elephant Butte's water line creep lower and wondering what
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Ty's Take Grant Memorial Regional Medical Center inching forward on its fixes, Cobre Schools squeezing nickels on food and custodial work, and a new superintendent finding out fast that the job looks a lot different from the outside looking in. These are the stories of an institution-heavy
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire has doubled in size overnight, now sitting at a thousand acres with zero containment, and folks in Cundiyo and Cerro Piño are getting evacuation notices pushed to their phones. We've been here before, twice in the last generation, and this plateau
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Ty's Take Water law in the Rio Grande Basin is the third rail nobody wants to touch until they have to, and then it's already too late. The settlement with Sean Barnes is done, solid waste costs are climbing faster than anybody planned for, and somewhere
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Ty's Take The lightning fires popping up across the Santa Fe National Forest this week hit a nerve up here on the plateau, the way they always do. Folks around Los Alamos remember 2000 and 2011 like they were yesterday, and when you see smoke in the Pecos
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez are gone this week, along with Shannyn Caldwell, and that's the kind of loss that hits different in a town like Las Cruces where you run into people at the Mesilla Valley Mall or the Farmers Market
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman worked these fields like most of us do, the kind of steady presence you don't think much about until the name shows up in the paper and you realize how many seasons she saw come and go. When you live
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Ty's Take August's hitting different when you've got kids heading back to the classroom. Free vaccines, school zone reminders, the Wildcats roster coming together, and the fair lineup announced, all in the same week, tells you something about how this town gets itself ready
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Ty's Take When the bookkeeping charges got dropped in Nogal, somebody up there probably breathed easier, but around here we know how these small-town money tangles tend to unwind. What matters more today is what's happening down in Santa Fe, where our state's
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Ty's Take The city council finally locked down next year's budget this week, which means at least somebody around here knows what money they're actually working with come July. But that certainty ends about there. The water story that keeps us all awake at
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Ty's Take Spring's here and the wild things are moving back into town like they never really left. A bear in Little Walnut, fawns scattered through the neighborhoods, and now word that folks need to stop picking up the baby deer because mama's usually
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Ty's Take School's coming back, the fire season is heating up again, and if you've driven the hill during the morning rush you already know August is going to test everybody's patience. This town runs on the Lab's clock, and