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Ty's Take Water settled in court means money stops bleeding into lawyers' pockets, and that matters more than people realize in a county where every drop gets argued over twice before it hits the river. The affordable housing ordinance coming through and Williamsburg's audit staying
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Ty's Take When an ex-miner trades his helmet for a locksmith's kit and rolls a mobile shop into Silver City, you're seeing something the old-timers understand without having to say it out loud—this town's never going to be what
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Ty's Take There's a stretch in late May when the heat starts winning and folks are more likely to be found in front of a screen than out in it—the garden's planted, the summer projects haven't quite demanded full attention yet,
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Ty's Take We're in that stretch of an election year where every candidate with a shot at the Governor's Office comes through town telling us what New Mexico needs, and half the time they're not wrong—we do need better water management,
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Ty's Take The burglary string hitting our county the last few weeks reminds you that trouble doesn't care much about population size—six thousand people means six thousand places to case, and nowhere's really too small to bother with. What matters now is whether
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Ty's Take When a town the size of Silver City turns out for Memorial Day and then spills into Gough Park for Blues Fest the same weekend, you're looking at people who still know how to gather—rain or shine, and apparently after a structure fire
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman spent her life in this valley—the kind of person who knew everybody's name at the feed store and remembered which families had been here since before the interstates came through. Those aren't small things in a place
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration this week hits different when you're standing in Luna County watching the sky the color of old concrete and the fire danger map painted red from here to the Sacramento peaks. We've been through dry spells
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Ty's Take The Chamber's got new blood at the helm after Jerrett Perry's retirement, which is the kind of transition that matters more than it looks on the surface—these directors are the ones threading the needle between what Holloman needs, what the ranching
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Ty's Take The new auditor in town isn't here to make friends, and that's exactly what we needed to hear. When someone walks in and starts calling out the difference between what we say we're doing and what we're actually
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Ty's Take Small towns live and die by who's wearing the badge, and when a police chief walks out the door—especially under the kind of circumstances that make a city council reach for the termination papers—everybody in the county feels it. Hurley's
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Ty's Take A wrong-way driver on I-10 killed somebody this week, and now faces a homicide charge—the kind of story that reminds you how fast things turn catastrophic out here, especially when alcohol's involved. Meanwhile, the town's getting ready for summer