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Ty's Take You can tell a lot about a town by what it chooses to tear down and what it chooses to protect. Deming's doing both this week—clearing out the Balboa's aging bones to make room for something the community actually needs, while
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Ty's Take The Supreme Court's decision in Texas v. New Mexico doesn't settle anything down here—it just puts a number on what we've known for years, that water is the argument we'll never finish having. Upstream users want more,
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Ty's Take Schools closing and bike parks breaking ground—that's the arithmetic of a town trying to figure out what it is now versus what it was. Jose Barrios Elementary's last day wasn't just about shuttering a building; it was watching three
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Ty's Take Three names in the paper today—Shannyn Caldwell, Timothy Joseph Hourigan, George Douglas Jackson at seventy—and they're the kind of losses that hit different in a town like this where you run into people's families at the grocery store or see
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Ty's Take Tuesday's primary is going to draw the usual crowd—people who show up every time, and a lot of folks who'll realize at their kitchen table that they forgot it was happening. That's the way it goes in a county
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Ty's Take Water's been the conversation around here since before this town changed its name, and it'll be the conversation long after we're gone—but May's usually when the real reckoning starts. Elephant Butte's levels aren't
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Ty's Take Tyce Delk's invitation to the Grand Ole Opry is the kind of thing that reminds you Silver City's got deeper roots than the Chino pit ever went—his great-grandfather founded The Delk Band right here, and now the kid gets to
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Ty's Take Monsoon talk hitting the forecast desk already, farmers getting word about emergency loans, and somebody finally pushing road safety—which tells you we're in that strange stretch where water's on everybody's mind but nobody knows which way it cuts. Could
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Ty's Take What strikes you about an 11% early turnout is that it's low enough to matter—folks either haven't made up their minds yet or they're waiting for Election Day proper, and in a county this size, that's the
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Ty's Take Clarence Villemez worked this valley long enough to see the whole thing transform—the orchards give way to subdivisions, the water arguments get meaner every year, and the young people either leave or stay and figure out how to make it work anyway. His obit in
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Ty's Take Kyle Busch was 41 and at the top of his sport, which is the kind of thing that stops you cold no matter what you think you know about mortality. The racing world lost one of its fiercest competitors, and the rest of us got reminded
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Ty's Take Sometimes the smallest stories tell you the most about who we are. ENMU-Ruidoso bringing in Clabaugh as athletic coordinator might look like routine staffing news, but up in those mountains where the college's been fighting to keep its footing, it matters—athletics is