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Ty's Take The Forestry Division's decision to push seedlings into the burn zones makes sense on paper—replant what the fire took, stabilize the soil, move forward. But anyone who's walked those blackened ridges above Hillsboro knows that fire in this country doesn'
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Ty's Take Every July, Elephant Butte fills with boats and fireworks and people remembering why they moved here in the first place, and there's nothing wrong with that—a town needs its celebrations. But you can't help noticing the city commission spending its energy
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Ty's Take The municipal airport board's looking at a new master plan, which around here is code for: we're trying to figure out how to grow without choking on our own dust. Truth or Consequences sits in a weird sweet spot—close enough to
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Ty's Take The budget dust-up heating up downtown is the same argument we've been having for twenty years—whether this town survives on the backs of people trying to keep the lights on and water running, or whether we finally build something that doesn't
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Ty's Take The city commission's move on tiny homes—that's the kind of thing that either saves a place like ours or speeds up what was already coming anyway. We've got retirees on fixed incomes, young couples priced out even in a
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Ty's Take The Supreme Court's Texas v. New Mexico decision landed this week the way desert heat does—all at once and changing everything downstream—and while the lawyers sort out what it means for the Rio Grande, Truth or Consequences has a more immediate problem
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Ty's Take End-of-year banquets tend to blur together after you've covered enough of them, but there's something worth marking when a place like the Elephant Butte Golf and Country Club still has the juice to bring people together—especially in a county where the
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Ty's Take Water's been the conversation around here since before we renamed this town fifty years ago, and come late May the monsoon talk usually means dust storms and flash flood watches down the arroyos. But when the Citizen's leading with overconsumption in the
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Ty's Take The commission's interim budget reads like a wish list from folks who've forgotten what happens when the Rio Grande runs low and Elephant Butte can't cover the irrigation season. You can talk goals and improvements all you want, but this
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Ty's Take Screwworms don't usually make the news around here until they've already made their way through a herd, which is why that confirmed case over in the county deserves the attention it's getting today. These parasites don't care much
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Ty's Take The Tiger Stadium track closure hits different when you're a town this size—it's not just about the runners and jumpers who won't have a place to train, it's about the Friday nights when families walk over to
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Ty's Take The new auditor's coming in swinging, and Truth or Consequences is getting the kind of hard look it probably needed anyway—no sugar, just the numbers on whether this town's been padding its utility revenues like they used to do back in