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Ty's Take The dam keeps breaking, the mine keeps talking, and now somebody new owns the voting machines, but nobody around here seems quite sure what any of it means yet. That's not complaint, just observation. Water's the real story underneath all three, if
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Ty's Take Copper Flat's been a ghost story around here long enough that when someone finally gets serious about pulling ore out of that ground again, you get standing room only at the county hearing. Hard to blame folks for showing up, either. This country needs
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Ty's Take Two pieces of news today that cut straight to what keeps this county running, which is water and the land that holds it. The Copper Flat hearing on tailings stability is the kind of thing most folks tune out until it matters, and then it matters
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Ty's Take Amy Whitehead's been fielding questions about the election, which is the job, and folks around here are paying attention to how it's run. Meanwhile, the Copper Flat conversation keeps circling back to the same core question: does anybody actually intend to dig,
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Ty's Take The boil-water advisory that wrapped up this week was one of those reminders that infrastructure in a town our size lives on borrowed time if nobody's paying attention. We dodged what could've been a real public health mess, and that'
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Ty's Take Norm Gaume's piece on Copper Flat hits at something we can't keep dancing around: the mine wants 36,000 acre-feet of water a year in a state that doesn't have it to give. That's not some abstract
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Ty's Take The Copper Flat Mine hearings keep circling back to the same two things, and not always at the same time. One side sees jobs, the kind of steady work that keeps young families from having to leave for Las Vegas or El Paso. The other side
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Ty's Take The Copper Flat mine hearings keep grinding on, and you can't blame folks around here for the wear it's showing on their faces. Water's been the hard currency of this valley since before T or C was even a name,
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Ty's Take Bonnie hit 100 this week, which around here means we all got reminded that some folks just keep going, keep showing up, keep being part of the fabric whether it's a quiet Tuesday or a celebration day. The Tigers are playing the kind of
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Ty's Take The Copper Flat Mine hearing on tailings stability and the water treatment plant funding finally coming together in the same week says something about where this county stands right now. We've got the old economy knocking on the door again, asking about minerals and
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Ty's Take The Copper Flat mine hearings keep coming back, and so does the same question underneath all of them: what do we need more, and what can we afford to lose? A data center at Spaceport America pulling water from thin air sounds like science fiction until
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Ty's Take Twenty million dollars for water resilience sounds like the kind of news that ought to settle a few nerves around here, but anybody who's watched Elephant Butte's levels for the last decade knows money alone doesn't fill a lake when