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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
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Ty's Take There's something about a radio station giving away Disney on Ice tickets that reminds you how small towns keep themselves going—not with the big stuff, but with the little breaks that make life feel less like grinding through another week. Mix 94.3&
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Ty's Take The Roswell Tribune's launch signals something worth watching in how news gets told around the basin these days. El Rito Media stepping in while the Daily Record changes hands means the conversation about what matters in Chaves County isn't ending—it'
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Ty's Take There's something worth holding onto in the way this week broke for Silver City. While crews pushed back the Willow Creek fire and got neighbors home to their land, our high schoolers were in Washington taking history awards—kids learning how to make an
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Ty's Take The McCauley Springs Fire sitting at a hundred percent contained is the kind of headline this town learned to hold its breath over back in 2000 and again in 2011—you don't let yourself relax until the last ember's cold and the
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Ty's Take Williamsburg's new budget reads like a town that's finally convinced itself the future's worth building for—ninety cents of every dollar going straight into capital projects instead of just keeping the lights on and patching potholes. You don't
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Ty's Take The road back into the high country opens again this week, which matters more than it sounds—not just for the folks who were evacuated, but for the whole delicate balance this county's been trying to strike for years. When Bursum Road closes, it&
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Ty's Take The Fire Department's push to strengthen wildfire response through statewide partnerships is the kind of talk that gets real attention up here, and for good reason—Cerro Grande and Las Conchas left scars that don't fade, and every household on the plateau
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Ty's Take Sam Neill's passing at 78 reminds you that the ones who made you want to believe in dinosaurs walking the earth again aren't getting any younger. He had that rare gift—could make you believe he was terrified and competent at the