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Ty's Take Anastacia "Tatcha" Thomas was the kind of person this town needs more of—someone who showed up, stayed put, and made things better in the quiet way that doesn't always make the papers until it's too late. We don'
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how Williamsburg's stormwater plan threads the needle between growth and the Rio Grande—fix the streets, control runoff, protect the river that keeps this whole county alive. Meanwhile, the BLM is fast-tracking a pipeline review for
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Ty's Take There's a particular weight to Memorial Day out here, where half the county seems to have someone buried at Fort Bayard and the other half is still out working the land those people fought for. This year's ceremony falls right as fire
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Ty's Take Money moving through the shadows in a New Mexico primary always leaves a trail, even when somebody's built a nonprofit wall to hide behind. Same voters who trust their neighbors with cattle deals and water rights are supposed to believe they can't
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Ty's Take Graduation, Memorial Day, and the annual FFA banquet all stacked up this week—the kind of calendar that reminds you this town still runs on the old rhythms, even with Spaceport America drawing eyes toward the stars. These aren't the flashy stories that make
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Ty's Take You can feel something shifting in Silver City when the conversation moves from what we used to mine to what we might build next—and this week that conversation got a little more organized. The new economic committee digging into tax reports isn't glamorous
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Ty's Take Metal detectors at the junior high and high school—that's the kind of sentence that would've landed like a joke twenty years ago, but here we are, and Deming Schools is moving forward with OPENGATE screening at the secondary campuses. It'
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Ty's Take Steve Pearce took the oath at the Bureau of Land Management with one hand still warm from the Bible, and by sundown four billion dollars in oil and gas leases had already changed hands across public lands that'll never look the same. You can
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Ty's Take Graduation day in Truth or Consequences always feels like the whole town is breathing out together—and this year's parade down Main Street is going to be something. These kids have made it through everything from water uncertainty to the usual small-town distractions,
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Ty's Take There's a particular weight to a Tuesday morning when the paper leads with the names of people who won't be around to read it. George Jackson made it to seventy; Paul Lawrence to eighty-four—both solid runs in this valley where
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Ty's Take Politics in a military town runs different than most places—you've got federal workers, career officers, contractors, and ranchers all trying to figure out where their bread comes from, and they don't always agree on who gets to make those calls. Deb
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Ty's Take The water cupboard keeps getting emptier, and nobody's really talking about what happens when the tourists show up to soak in the hot springs while the farmers downstream can't fill their ditches. Elephant Butte's been dropping for years—everybody knows