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Ty's Take Steve Pearce took the oath at the Bureau of Land Management with one hand still warm from the Bible, and by sundown four billion dollars in oil and gas leases had already changed hands across public lands that'll never look the same. You can
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Ty's Take Politics in a military town runs different than most places—you've got federal workers, career officers, contractors, and ranchers all trying to figure out where their bread comes from, and they don't always agree on who gets to make those calls. Deb
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Ty's Take There's something about a relay team that tells you what a town values—the handoff matters more than any individual stride, and timing has to be perfect or the whole thing falls apart. Our girls took second at state, which means they ran clean,
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Ty's Take Duke Rodriguez is running for governor on the kind of platform that plays well in rooms full of donors—tax cuts, border security, the usual Republican checklist. But what catches you out here is that he's talking about it in Alamogordo, where people are
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Ty's Take Holloman's been good to this town—that's the through-line you hear whether it's at the VFW or the Chamber office or watching the flags come down on Memorial Day. An Air Force base that actually works with its civilian neighbors
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Ty's Take Steve Pearce's confirmation at the Bureau of Land Management is the kind of appointment that splits this town right down the middle—good news for the oil and gas folks who've been waiting on permitting, rougher news for the water-rights crowd already
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Ty's Take When a gubernatorial candidate gets a cease-and-desist from a sitting president, it's worth asking what happened—and whether it matters more in a primary fight than it does to the people out here worried about water, jobs, and keeping their kids from moving to
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Ty's Take Alamogordo High's softball team made the state tournament on heart and timing, which is about all you can ask of kids who've been grinding since February. They came up short this week—that's how tournaments work—and somebody's
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Ty's Take Four people gone in a medical flight that didn't make it home—that's the kind of loss that settles hard in a town built around aviation and emergency response. We don't have details yet, and Lincoln County's still
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Ty's Take The news that CHRISTUS Health picked up top marks for safety isn't the kind of headline that makes people sit up straight, but in a town where Holloman's flight surgeons and White Sands' medical protocols set the bar pretty high, it
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Ty's Take The federal government's lawsuit against New Mexico over the detention bill lands hard in a county that's never been shy about the complexities of border enforcement, and meanwhile Operation Desert Sweep is rounding up thirty-some accused traffickers—so you've got
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Ty's Take When a man from Mescalero pleads guilty to assaulting an officer, you're looking at the kind of moment that sits different in a town like ours—where the base, the range, and the reservation all occupy the same airspace and history runs deep and