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Ty's Take School's ramping up again, which means the usual reminders about slowing down near the buildings and watching for kids cutting across streets. Nothing fancy in that message, just the hard truth that a parent in a hurry or a driver not paying attention can
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Ty's Take The spring bite's been coming in fits and starts across the basin and up into the Sacramento foothills, which means half the county's about to remember why they moved here in the first place. Between the base schedules, the missile range closures,
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Ty's Take Water's been the subject around here long enough that you'd think we'd be used to watching the levels drop, but something about low water at Elephant Butte brings out the cleanup crews like nothing else. There's a practical
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Ty's Take The heat advisories piling up in the scanner traffic tell you everything about the week ahead, but there's something else worth watching beneath the surface of these routine headlines. A state land purchase in the Mimbres Valley, a library facing the budget knife in
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Ty's Take The Oso Canyon Fire is contained, the bears are walking through town again as August settles in, and up on the hill they're talking about powering America's AI future while down here we're still learning what it means to live
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of contentment you see in people who've found what they're good at and decided to chase it without apology. That's what catches you in a story like this one, where someone's divided
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Ty's Take Slow week down in the valley, which around here usually means people are either out in the fields or taking what little break they can get before the real heat of late summer settles in. The Bulletin's got a piece on a local who
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Ty's Take Late summer in Luna County means two things: getting the kids ready and crossing fingers that the money holds out. This year at least, the vaccine clinics are free, which takes one worry off the table for families already sweating tuition and supplies. The State Fair&
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Ty's Take When you've worked around a military town long enough, you learn that the real news isn't always on the front page. Sure, we've got a lieutenant governor nominee and civic projects moving forward, the kind of machinery that keeps a
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Ty's Take Water's been the conversation around here since before Truth or Consequences was even Truth or Consequences, and this spring it's the only conversation that matters. Elephant Butte's level dictates whether ranchers downstream get their irrigation, whether the lake stays a
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Ty's Take You can see what Silver City's actually worried about these days just by reading down the page. We've got fights with the federal government over school mental health money, a new massage school trying to fill the gap where real therapists should
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Ty's Take The Oso Canyon Fire is still smoldering in the Santa Fe National Forest while crews work the hotspots, and that's the kind of thing that makes every July and August feel a little shorter up here on the plateau. Two decades past Cerro Grande