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Ty's Take Garcia Richard's name on the Democratic ticket for lieutenant governor is going to land different depending on which side of the Chama you're on. Up here in Rio Arriba, where land-grant families have held political weight for generations, there's
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Ty's Take The settlement that came through four years after those evictions says something about how long justice takes in a place like this, and how much fight it takes to get even that far. You can read the headlines about CYFD overreach and government money vanishing into
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Ty's Take Cherry dessert chimichangas aren't something you see on every menu around here, but that's exactly the kind of thing that keeps a place like Bode's or a local kitchen worth walking into. This far north of Santa Fe, we'
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Ty's Take The courts don't usually make the news for trying to meet people halfway, but that's what's happening with this new HelpLine coming out of the judiciary system. Anybody who's spent time in a courtroom, or worse, trying to
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Ty's Take Hull's visit down to Española this week puts a face on what's been cooking behind closed doors up here in the county for months. When your state representative shows up in person to lay out plans instead of just sending a press
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Ty's Take The news that a lizard lost federal protection might sound like bureaucratic noise until you remember what that lizard meant around here. The New Mexico meadow jumping mouse was listed as endangered back in 1975, and that designation shaped how water got managed, how land got
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Ty's Take The state's latest move to open up land for oil and gas drilling up north has folks around here doing what they do best: watching their water rights and their neighbors' tempers in equal measure. Meanwhile, down at the arena, kids are still
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Ty's Take The water's been running low on the Chama most of the summer, but word is the fishing's picking up down south where they've had better runoff, and that's the kind of thing that gets people thinking about their
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Ty's Take Oso Canyon is still burning, which means smoke drifts through the high country and settles in the valleys depending on wind and weather, and if you've been up near Chama or watching the ridgelines from down toward Abiquiú, you know what that looks like
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Ty's Take When a prosecutor walks into court asking a judge to hold someone without bond on a DWI charge, you know the facts on the paper are bad enough to scare people who've been doing this work a long time. This far north, where the
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Ty's Take A warrant out on a man from down in Española brings the usual reminder that trouble doesn't respect county lines, but the real news today is the work happening on the Rudy Cruz House. That kind of restoration matters around here because these old
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Ty's Take Utility billing errors have a way of getting people's attention faster than just about anything else, which is probably why the phones have been ringing down at the office this week. When a household that's been stable for years suddenly gets a