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Ty's Take When schools start picking up the tab for pencils and notebooks again, you know something's shifted in how we're thinking about equity around here. Truth or Consequences High's TigerSharks making it to Sundance State is the kind of news that
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Ty's Take Sometimes a town shows you what it actually values by what it fights to keep and what it lets slip away. We're hanging onto the museum—good, that matters—and we're wrestling with a mayor's reputation the way small towns
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Ty's Take The news out of LANL Foundation and the county health council this week points to something this town knows but doesn't always say out loud: we're good at the big problems—the physics, the engineering, the infrastructure—but the harder work happens
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman, Clarence Villemez, Shannyn Caldwell, Timothy Joseph Hourigan—four names in the paper this week, four people who lived their lives in this valley and left it different than they found it, the way it works here. You don't get to
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Ty's Take We lost a few good ones this week—Carol Ann, Clare, Shannyn, and Timothy—and the valley feels a little smaller when the names start stacking up like that. But what strikes me reading through the notices is how many of these folks spent their whole
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Ty's Take Getting a look at next year's Wildcats roster is like watching water seep back into a dry well—slow, steady, and proof that something's still flowing underneath even when things look parched. These kids coming up represent the future of football in
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Ty's Take The news that Ruidoso Downs is shutting down to fix a culvert might seem like a small operational headache, but it's the kind of thing that reminds you how much of life in this basin depends on infrastructure built decades ago and holding on
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Ty's Take Our little corner of the state's been grinding through the usual spring shuffle—bond votes, school budgets, a fresh hand at the General Store—but what caught me this week was how much of it points in the same direction. The VFW getting recognized,
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Ty's Take There's an old tension playing out in Grant County right now, and it's worth naming straight. Downtown wants cameras for safety and commerce, ranchers want the feds to leave their water alone, and the Murray Hotel's bringing back the Branding
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Ty's Take You don't have to read far down today's wire before the contrast hits you—a detective in Bernalillo County just got convicted for tipping off drug targets to the DEA, while up here on the Hill the state's handing out
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Ty's Take Dog days of summer and the TV guide is what we're working with—which tells you everything about how quiet things get around here come mid-July. But that's not nothing. It means the schools are empty, the Aggies aren't
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Ty's Take Slow week in the valley, which around here usually means everybody's out in the fields or already thinking about the next harvest cycle. The TV guide hits different when you're a farming town—half the county's probably still outside at