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Ty's Take The copper mine hearing, the spaceport whistleblower's mixed court results, and a police building contract going down to El Paso instead of staying closer to home—three stories that say something true about where we are right now. We're caught between the
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Ty's Take Nobody wants to see a school lose its fields, but the talk about Altamirano is worth paying attention to because it says something about how tight things are getting around here. When a district starts looking at what it owns and thinking hard about what it
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Ty's Take The USDA's move to strip back roadless restrictions in the Jemez makes sense on paper if you're worried about fuel loads and fire breaks, but up here on the plateau we've seen what happens when you open forest roads to
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Ty's Take The TV guide lands in your mailbox like it always does, and most folks flip straight past it to the sports section or the classifieds. But there's something worth noticing in how our viewing habits have fractured over the years. What used to be
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Ty's Take Slow week up the Mesilla Valley, which around here usually means everybody's either out in the fields or in the packing sheds where the real work happens this time of year. The entertainment guide landed instead of hard news, and that's fine,
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Ty's Take A year into the state park pass program for New Mexico veterans, it's worth asking who's actually using the thing. Free access to our parks sounds good on paper, and it should matter to folks around here who've served and
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Ty's Take A woman turns a hundred and her life's work was teaching kids, a young man's earned a scholarship to UNM, and the city pumped the brakes on tearing down Sunspot before somebody figured out what it's actually worth. That'
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Ty's Take Foch Street is open again, which means downtown can breathe a little easier and maybe folks will remember why they parked there in the first place. Road work in a town this size hits different, ties up the whole rhythm of things, and we've
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Ty's Take The weather's been trying to kill us and help us in equal measure this week. Dust storms rolled through hard enough to close roads while flash flooding hit the Mule Creek area, which is the kind of violent swing that keeps folks in Grant
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire is sitting at just over 13,000 acres with containment creeping toward a third of the perimeter, which on the Pajarito Plateau means folks up here are watching the weather and the afternoon winds the way other towns watch interest rates. Spike camps
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Ty's Take High school sports in a town this size matter more than the box score might suggest. When the Tigers take down the Wildcats in a double-header, you're not just watching kids play ball, you're watching the thing that keeps a small
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Ty's Take Back-to-school season tends to hide the harder conversations around here, and Wednesday night in Bayard is proof. While WNMU gets ready to welcome students back and folks are signing kids up for puppet workshops, the town council has to look at raising landfill rates,