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Ty's Take When the state's lawyers go after Washington over what's hidden in the Epstein files, you can bet there's something about New Mexico that somebody doesn't want talked about. We've had our share of powerful men doing
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Ty's Take August's heat is when a town remembers what it's built on, and an ice cream social isn't just dessert around here, it's a gathering where folks catch up on water talk and school news in the shade. The
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Ty's Take Grant County commissioners are about to test something we don't talk about enough around here: how much more people will pay when they don't have much choice. The solid waste fee increase is coming, and yeah, the county probably needs it, but
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire started small on the Pajarito Plateau Saturday and by evening had burned nearly nine thousand acres with a dozen percent contained and over five hundred personnel throwing everything at it. That's the language people here know by heart, the math that
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez are gone, which means two more people who knew this valley when it was different are no longer here to remember it out loud. The Bulletin also ran a piece this week about a local jeweler whose other life
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence "Clare" Villemez are gone, and that's the kind of loss that reminds you how small this valley really is. These weren't distant names in a paper, they were people who showed up, worked the
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Ty's Take Summer's winding down and the machinery of September is firing up again, which for most families around here means the scramble of new shoes, fresh notebooks, and making sure the kids are squared away before that first bell rings. The free vaccine clinic is
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Ty's Take Violence on a Tuesday afternoon reminds you that Alamogordo's still a town where things can flip hard and fast, but what sticks with me today is the photographer story, the one about the person who spent years capturing this basin and nobody around here
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Ty's Take You can pass all the budgets you want and settle all the lawsuits sitting on the docket, but none of it matters much if the Rio Grande keeps doing what it's been doing. Water stays the only conversation that matters around here, whether the
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Ty's Take The money talk in Grant County this week keeps circling back to the same question: who gets to spend what we've got? Hurley's pushing for a bigger slice of that $26 million water fund, Silver City's eyeing more revenue through
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire sitting at over 8,000 acres and zero containment is the only story that matters this week, and if you've lived here since Cerro Grande or watched the ash from Las Conchas settle on your roof, you already know that. The
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which in this valley means you saw the whole thing change, the way the river got fought over and the city grew out past the pecan orchards where his people worked. That's the kind of life you don&