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Ty's Take Summer's here and the TV guide is running thick—which tells you something about how folks around the Valley are spending their evenings when the heat hits 105 by mid-afternoon. Can't blame anybody for that. You finish up at the pecan
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Ty's Take A wrong-way driver on I-10 killed someone this week, and now there's a homicide charge on the books—the kind of tragedy that hits different in a town like ours where everybody's either related to somebody or knows somebody who
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Ty's Take A triple murder trial grinding through District Court is the kind of heavy lifting that reminds you why small towns need their courts working right—not for the spectacle, but because justice here means something personal, names you know, families torn open in front of your
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Ty's Take You can feel the town shifting underneath you when the city commission opens the door to tiny homes and the state cuts a check for a new middle school in the same week. That's not just zoning and construction—that's T or
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Ty's Take The last dance hall in Silver City is closing its doors, and that's worth sitting with for a minute—not because we're losing some glamorous relic, but because places like the Flame were where this town actually lived. You could walk in
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Ty's Take Alamogordo took down Tularosa in a 10-12 tournament game the kind of win that doesn't make the state tournament brackets but means everything to the kids who played it and the parents who drove out to watch. These age-group tournaments are where
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Ty's Take The Supreme Court's Texas v. New Mexico decision lands here like a stone in still water—it always does, eventually. Truth or Consequences sits downstream from every water fight upstream, and this town knows better than most that court rulings about the Rio Grande
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Ty's Take Bill Harrison turned 104 this week, which means he's watched Silver City transform from a mining town that knew exactly what it was into something a lot harder to define—and he's still here to see it. Meanwhile, a young man sits
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Ty's Take Three good men from this valley are gone this week—Shannyn Caldwell, Timothy Joseph Hourigan, and George Douglas Jackson, seventy. The obits don't always tell you much about a place, but Las Cruces knows what it's losing when names like these disappear
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Ty's Take Father's Day's coming up and somebody's got to think about it, which apparently is the job of a radio station on a Wednesday morning. Look, it's not a bad instinct—out here we've got a lot
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Ty's Take Screwworms in Lea County and car seats in Otero—not the kind of headlines that grab national attention, but they're the ones that keep a rural county breathing easy or holding its breath. The state's moving fast on the screwworm case, which
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Ty's Take When the emergency services director tells you we're on our own with FEMA funding, it lands different in a county where the Rio Grande is both lifeline and wildcard, where monsoon season can turn a dry wash into a real problem in an hour,