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Ty's Take The Barela situation up in Rio Arriba is the kind of mess that sticks around longer than anybody wants it to—a judge telling the county GOP chair he's got to go, and now the real work begins, which isn't the legal
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Ty's Take Gregg Hull's been around this country long enough to know that the real New Mexico isn't Santa Fe or Albuquerque—it's places like Chama and Abiquiú, where the land grants run deep and the water fights never really end. When
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Ty's Take Water rights and political ambition don't usually move the needle up here in Rio Arriba, but when Doug Turner starts talking governor's race, folks north of Española are listening—not because anyone's ready to pack him off to Santa Fe,
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Ty's Take Up here we're used to watching big decisions get made somewhere else—Santa Fe, or further down the Rio Grande—and then having to live with them. This week's mix of budget cuts, legal pressure, and personnel changes reads like that same
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Ty's Take You don't have to live up here long to understand how national politics lands different when you're six thousand feet up and forty miles from the nearest interstate. Duke Rodriguez getting a cease-and-desist from Trump's lawyers over some
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Ty's Take Sentencing day in the valley always leaves things quieter than they should be—the kind of quiet that comes after somebody's future gets decided in a courtroom sixty miles away, and everybody who knew them has to reckon with what that means for their
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Ty's Take A wild turkey got tangled in power lines up the valley this week—the kind of thing that stops being funny the moment the lights go out and you're standing in your kitchen at dinnertime trying to remember where you keep the candles. Meanwhile,
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Ty's Take Nobody wants to write the police blotter story, but it's the one that matters most some days—especially up here where you know half the people involved, directly or through blood. A vehicle theft that gets blamed on addiction isn't just a
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Ty's Take When a candidate gets arrested after a crash, when courts uphold a conviction, when auditors find problems in how the city spends money—those are the kinds of headlines that make you wonder what's really going on beneath the surface up here. We'
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Ty's Take You don't have to live here long to know that money moves slow in the high country—court settlements take years, school budgets get trimmed to the bone, and when two kids from up north land scholarships, the whole corridor notices. The four-day
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Ty's Take Spring's late this far north, but if El Vecino's telling folks it's time to get the leafy stuff in the ground, then the soil temperature's probably right and the frost window's closing fast enough to take
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Ty's Take When a man who wore the badge pleads guilty, the whole valley feels it different than when somebody else does. There's a particular weight to it—the betrayal of a trust that doesn't get written back into the ledger easy, especially up