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Ty's Take There's something about spring that brings the old fishermen out of the woodwork around here, and somebody down at the paper thought to chase that story. Fair enough—because if you've lived long enough in the basin, you know that a good
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Ty's Take Water fights, space dreams, and sewage don't usually share the same editorial real estate, but that's Sierra County in 2024—we're stretched thin defending our Rio Grande allocation against Texas while Spaceport America still hunts for its first real tenant
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of argument that happens in small towns when nobody's quite ready to admit what they're really arguing about. The Vasquez-HMS dust-up over whether a public meeting is needed has that feel—the kind of
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Ty's Take We lost a couple of good ones this week—David Gardner, who spent most of his life on the Hill, and Joe Myers down in White Rock—and that's the kind of news that reminds you this town, for all its laboratories and equations
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration came down this week while we're heading into the season that usually means heat, dust, and the kind of fire conditions that don't care much about county lines. In a place like Luna County where water&
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Ty's Take Most folks around here know the difference between having time and taking time, and that gap's been widening for years. The water's been good to this basin when we've had it, and whether someone's casting a line at
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Ty's Take The fourth bond measure in as many years tells you everything you need to know about where the money's going around here—water systems that can't keep up, roads that never stop crumbling, and wastewater infrastructure that's playing catch-up
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Ty's Take The museum director's indictment lands hard in a town where cultural institutions are supposed to be pulling people together, not tearing themselves apart—especially when we're still building what Silver City's going to be in another ten years. You can
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Ty's Take The bear cub advisory buried in today's briefing says something true about how we live up here now—the wildlife is pushed closer, we're building higher on the plateau, and every summer the line between our world and theirs gets thinner. Meanwhile
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how NMSU keeps threading the needle between what it was and what it's becoming. The university's always been the spine of this valley—Aggie football on Saturday, research dollars flowing into the ag college, kids
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Ty's Take Most weeks around here you can read the Bulletin and know exactly what's happening down in Las Cruces, which is fine—that's their beat. But when a story about creativity and balance lands in the valley papers, it's worth paying
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Ty's Take The political dust settled fast this week when Miyagishima dropped out of the governor's race and threw her support behind GOP nominee Gregg Hull—the kind of move that tells you something about which way the wind's blowing in a state that&