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Ty's Take The state's new water dashboard is exactly the kind of transparency we've been asking for, and exactly the kind we need to keep asking hard questions about. Santa Fe can track progress on paper all day long, but down here where the
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Ty's Take Summer's hitting Santa Clara hard and fast, which means the real test isn't whether the town can handle the heat—it's whether we can keep the lights on and the pipes running without pricing out the folks who've
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration came down the wire today, and if you've been outside in Luna County the last few weeks you already knew it. The heat's been sitting on us like a blanket, the monsoon's running late,
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Ty's Take Holloman's been good to this town—that's the through-line you hear whether it's at the VFW or the Chamber office or watching the flags come down on Memorial Day. An Air Force base that actually works with its civilian neighbors
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Ty's Take Looks like we're getting the kind of week where the hard truths land alongside the hopeful ones. A new county auditor who isn't afraid to call out what's broken in Truth or Consequences, kids making bad choices in the dark
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Ty's Take Dry country knows how to read the signs, and right now they're all pointing the same direction. The National Weather Service is already talking 2026 monsoon season like it's something we need to plan for today, Santa Clara's got fire
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Ty's Take A wrong-way driver on I-10 killed someone this week, and now faces a homicide charge—the kind of tragedy that hits different out here, where that interstate is the spine of everything we do, where families cross it to work, where goods move through it day
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Ty's Take Steve Pearce's confirmation at the Bureau of Land Management is the kind of appointment that splits this town right down the middle—good news for the oil and gas folks who've been waiting on permitting, rougher news for the water-rights crowd already
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Ty's Take A jury convicted Espirideon Varela this week while a cyclist ended up under a police car and the county held another meeting about fire—which tells you everything about Grant County right now. We're a place where the courts work, where accidents happen at
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Ty's Take Summer's finally coming to Deming, and that inflatable water park opening up is exactly the kind of thing families around here have been waiting for—cheap fun when the thermometer hits 100 and you've got kids who need somewhere to cool off
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Ty's Take When a gubernatorial candidate gets a cease-and-desist from a sitting president, it's worth asking what happened—and whether it matters more in a primary fight than it does to the people out here worried about water, jobs, and keeping their kids from moving to
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Ty's Take Silver City had itself a rough couple of days on the streets—a shooting that put a girl in the hospital, a truck that shouldn't have been moving through a crowd, the kind of incidents that stick with a town this size because everybody