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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92 in a valley where that kind of longevity means you've seen the whole arc of modern agriculture, water politics, and what happens when a town decides what it's good at and sticks with it. The obits
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Ty's Take Tularosa's water emergency doesn't make the news just because the basin's dry, though God knows it is. It makes the news because somebody finally had to say it out loud, call it what it is, and ask the state for
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Ty's Take The county commissioners just threw the brakes on a data center at Spaceport America, and it's worth asking whether that's about protecting the future or fighting it. A moratorium makes sense if the proposal was half-baked, but around here the real
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Ty's Take The courthouse roof leaks, the plumbing's held together with prayer, and now the chief judge is telling Grant County commissioners to quit stalling and find the money to fix it. That building's been the heart of Silver City since 1895, and it&
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire sitting at nearly 8,000 acres and zero containment is the kind of number that makes every long-timer on this plateau stop and look at the scars from Cerro Grande and Las Conchas all over again. We've been lucky this
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Ty's Take A year into the state park pass program for New Mexico veterans, and you've got to figure the thing's working the way it was supposed to. Free access to places like City of Rocks and Rockhound State Park isn't charity,
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Ty's Take You watch a town's character show up in what its kids are doing on a ball diamond or a horse track, and Alamogordo's got plenty to be proud of right now. Post 34 is turning out the kind of baseball that reminds
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Ty's Take Fall's hitting right on schedule, and up at Shattuck Vineyard they're pulling in another harvest, which means somebody around here is still betting on the land instead of just passing through it. That matters in a county where most of what gets
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Ty's Take Money showed up for Southwest New Mexico this week, a million dollars of it, but nobody's saying much about where it's going or what it'll fix. That's the kind of headline that makes a small county editor'
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Ty's Take Smoke rolling into White Rock and the Frijoles Fire sitting at 6,214 acres with zero containment as of Tuesday evening has a way of sharpening the focus around here. Anyone who lived through Cerro Grande or watched Las Conchas work its way across the ridges
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Ty's Take You know the old saying about how you can't control the weather, only prepare for it. Well, Mother Nature didn't get that memo, and the folks around here are spending their late summer doing what they always do when the wind kicks
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Ty's Take Fire season's grip finally loosening around Santa Clara, which is the kind of news that settles people's shoulders down a notch this time of year. When restrictions lift you can feel the shift, especially heading into winter when folks want to gather