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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of trouble that arrives when a police chief loses the confidence of his own city council, and Hurley's wrestling with it this week—administrative leave now, firing papers likely coming. These small departments run on trust more than
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Ty's Take Every August when the heat settles in and people start thinking about back-to-school, somebody around here remembers that not every kid in Luna County walks into September with a full backpack. Stuff The Bus has been running long enough now that folks know the drill—you
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Ty's Take When a man from Mescalero pleads guilty to assaulting an officer, you're looking at the kind of moment that sits different in a town like ours—where the base, the range, and the reservation all occupy the same airspace and history runs deep and
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Ty's Take Grant County's got some Republican write-in candidates in the mix this cycle, which means somebody wasn't happy with the primary lineup—or saw an opening nobody else spotted. Write-in campaigns around here are usually personal, born from somebody's kitchen table
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Ty's Take A wrong-way driver on I-10 killed someone yesterday, and now faces a homicide charge tied to impaired driving—the kind of tragedy that doesn't need much explaining, just acknowledging. Same day, the DAGSHIP grant came through to fund hundreds of spay and neuter surgeries
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Ty's Take A man missing for years finally gets his name back this week, and you sit with that for a minute in a town where the desert keeps its secrets and the mountains don't give much up. DNA work that would've been pure
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how Hurley moves on those utility rate hikes—not because the numbers themselves are shocking, but because what happens in that town tends to ripple straight down into Silver City's own budget conversations. Meanwhile, our two kids
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Ty's Take Summer's coming to Deming the way it always does—with kids already counting days until the water park opens and parents already thinking about where to keep them occupied when school lets out. But this year we're also getting a harder look
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in those numbers coming to White Sands Regional Airport—a hundred and ten grand in infrastructure money that says somebody in the state capital thinks this place is worth betting on for the next chapter. Meanwhile, up in Cloudcroft and
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Ty's Take Metal detectors at the high school and middle school—that's where we are now, and anybody pretending it's not a sign of something broken isn't paying attention. The Deming schools are installing OPENGATE screening systems, which means kids walk through
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Ty's Take Mother's Day hits different in a military town. You've got a guy like Javier Sanchez taking time to say it plain—that his mother shaped who he is—while over at Holloman, families are getting reunited around a holiday that's
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Ty's Take The Hummingbird Fire crossing 6,000 acres while we're still in the thick of monsoon season is a reminder that Silver City sits in one of those peculiar spots where we're never quite safe from either too much water or too little—