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Ty's Take There's a hard reckoning coming to this country, and you can feel it in three stories running today—a crash that burned timber, a federal rule that'll remake how we use the backcountry, and a shooting in Chimayó that left somebody dead
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Ty's Take Three kids from Escalante got their shot this year, and that matters more than most of the noise coming down from Santa Fe these days. In a valley where families have worked the same land for four, five, sometimes six generations, every young person who gets
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Ty's Take Election season always hits different up here in the high country, where most folks are too busy with spring work to pay much attention to what's happening down in Santa Fe or Albuquerque. But when a gubernatorial ticket starts mapping out its route through
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Ty's Take Election season up here tends to move slower than down in Albuquerque or Santa Fe, which gives a man time to think about what actually matters when somebody comes through asking for your vote. The gubernatorial race is starting to take shape, and you'll
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Ty's Take The valley's got a lot of good news mixed in with the hard kind this week—Father's Day dinners coming up, which means families are finding reasons to gather around a table when things feel fractured enough already. But those criminal charges
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Ty's Take The Barela case closing out at the state Supreme Court level means this fight over who runs things in Rio Arriba County—and how—isn't going to get any prettier on the way down. These land-grant communities have long memories and longer grudges,
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Ty's Take When a week's news runs light on crisis and heavy on the sweet stuff—a new candy treat, a commander's promotion, pilgrims on the trail, a film coming home, and folks gathering to talk energy—you get a pretty clear picture of
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Ty's Take Most days up here you see the slow work—a weaving class, a roping buckle earned, a bicycle shop doing right by the shelter animals, water rules that keep the trout coming back. That's the real rhythm of the valley, the stuff that holds
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Ty's Take Milton Johnson's been weaving straw hats in Santa Fe for longer than most of us have been alive, and the fact that one of his creations goes for twenty-five grand tells you something about what happens when a man refuses to cut corners
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Ty's Take Water's tight up here, always has been, but the Los Alamos Co-op's push for a hundred grand tells you something about where the real pressure sits these days—not on the Chama or the Abiquiú watershed, but on the smaller operations
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Ty's Take An Abiquiú man walks out of a courtroom acquitted, a shoplifter runs from the law down roads most of us know by heart, and somewhere in those northern briefs is the small machinery of how things actually work up here—who got hired, who's
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Ty's Take Couple of courthouse stories this week that don't sit easy, even by the standards of a place where people live hard and sometimes settle things harder. A woman gets beaten for trying to help someone navigate disability benefits—the kind of work that keeps