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Ty's Take Santa Clara's got itself a new bike park, which on the surface sounds like the kind of thing you'd expect in a town trying to rebrand itself—and there's nothing wrong with that. But pull back and you're
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Ty's Take The Forest Service's roadless rule debate hits different out here, where the line between conservation and access isn't theoretical—it's personal. You've got ranchers who've worked the same high country their families settled a century ago,
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Ty's Take When a semi burns on the interstate and suddenly Truth or Consequences becomes the detour route for everyone heading north, you get a quick reminder that we're not as isolated as we sometimes feel—and you also get a hard look at what our
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Ty's Take The Fourth of July deadline creeping up on Monday is one of those annual reminders that Silver City still knows how to throw a party, which matters more than people outside here seem to understand—a good parade and a few vendors hawking corn dogs and
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman spent most of her life in this valley, which means she saw what Las Cruces was and what it's become—the orchards giving way to subdivisions, the quiet town turning into something busier and louder. The obituaries in a paper
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Ty's Take Seventy-five years back, this paper was running stories about a world still getting used to the atomic age—Trinity had been dust for a year, and Alamogordo was trying to figure out what it meant to live downwind of that kind of history. Fast forward
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Ty's Take Fire season's arrived early in the Gila, and that smoke hanging over the ridges isn't something to ignore. The Sacaton Fire's still in the wilderness country where it can run, but Red Flag Warnings tell you the conditions are primed
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing when a local maker decides to turn creativity into commerce, especially in a town where most of us still think of economy in terms of what grows in the ground or what the university brings in. These plushie artisans are
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration lands on a Tuesday like most bad news does, and it lands harder here than it does in Santa Fe. Deming's been living on borrowed water for years—the aquifer doesn't care what the governor declares,
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of restlessness that settles over a military town when the seasons shift and leadership changes hands—you can feel it in the administrative offices and the gyms and the coffee shops where people watch who's coming in and
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Ty's Take Spaceport America's been the carrot dangled in front of us for years now—the future economy, the jobs, the reason to believe this town's got another chapter ahead—and suddenly it's looking less like a sure thing and more like
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Ty's Take County commissioners calling the Phelps-Dodge property a "historical and ecological asset" is the kind of language you use when you're trying to have it both ways—honoring what the mine meant to Silver City's bones while keeping the door