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Ty's Take Anne Hillerman's been thinking about the line between what happened and what people remember happening, which is the real work of writing out here whether you're chasing facts or spinning stories. Her father Tony built his whole reputation on getting the Southwest
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Ty's Take The county commissioners made the call most folks around here already had in their heads—pump the brakes on data centers out at Spaceport America, at least for now. Nobody's against progress, but there's a difference between the kind that fits who
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Ty's Take The drug busts this week—six arrested, grand jury indictments rolling in—remind us that trouble doesn't announce itself in a town like Silver City. It's here, quiet, mixed in with everything else we're trying to build. But what caught
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Ty's Take There's a body found in the mountains, a kid earning scholarship money, somebody hiring folks for next fall, and the usual late-summer mix of community life playing out on the plateau—which is exactly how it should be when you're two
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Ty's Take Sam Neill's death hits different when you're sitting in a town where a lot of folks grew up watching movies as their ticket out—or at least somewhere else for a couple hours. The man had a long career and a good
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Ty's Take Water's always been the real mayor around here, and this week's story about T or C's senior rights on the Rio Grande is a reminder that whoever controls the tap controls the future—which means our city council's
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Ty's Take Water's running where it usually doesn't, which out here means paying attention to which roads are still passable and which ones have turned into temporary arroyos. The Mimbres is up, wet roads are slicking things around Deming and Akela, and the Forest
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Ty's Take What strikes you about a slow summer week in Los Alamos is how much of the real work gets done in the margins—a Shakespeare comedy on the lawn outside Hans Bethe's house, a suicide prevention course tucked into the library schedule, Leadership Los
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Ty's Take Steve Pearce's confirmation as BLM director doesn't get much ink in towns like ours, but out here it matters more than most people realize. The man's got New Mexico running through his veins—former congressman, former state party chairman, knows
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Ty's Take Water's been the conversation around here since before most of us can remember, but watching Elephant Butte slip lower every season hits different when you see it in the official numbers. The lake that keeps this whole region breathing—tourism, irrigation, ranchers downstream—doesn&
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Ty's Take There's a stretch of county road between Hachita and the interstate that's been gnawing at people for years—dust, potholes, the kind of surface that'll shake your fillings loose if you're not careful. This alert suggests something'
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Ty's Take The Lab keeps beating the drum about career pathways for the next generation—good work, necessary work—but it's worth asking whether Los Alamos County is actually building the kind of place young people want to stay in once they're trained up.