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Ty's Take You can pass all the budgets you want and settle all the lawsuits sitting on the docket, but none of it matters much if the Rio Grande keeps doing what it's been doing. Water stays the only conversation that matters around here, whether the
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Ty's Take The county commissioners just threw the brakes on a data center at Spaceport America, and it's worth asking whether that's about protecting the future or fighting it. A moratorium makes sense if the proposal was half-baked, but around here the real
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Ty's Take Fall's hitting right on schedule, and up at Shattuck Vineyard they're pulling in another harvest, which means somebody around here is still betting on the land instead of just passing through it. That matters in a county where most of what gets
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Ty's Take You know the old saying about how you can't control the weather, only prepare for it. Well, Mother Nature didn't get that memo, and the folks around here are spending their late summer doing what they always do when the wind kicks
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Ty's Take The Tigers came to the Turtleback tournament ready to prove something, and a dominant showing in the round robin is exactly the kind of statement a team makes when it's built right. This time of year, when the competition gets mixed and the brackets
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Ty's Take The city manager's office kept $3.6 million in the piggy bank this year, and you can read that number two ways. One is competent budgeting. The other, if you're watching Elephant Butte's water line creep lower and wondering what
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Ty's Take Water law in the Rio Grande Basin is the third rail nobody wants to touch until they have to, and then it's already too late. The settlement with Sean Barnes is done, solid waste costs are climbing faster than anybody planned for, and somewhere
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Ty's Take The city council finally locked down next year's budget this week, which means at least somebody around here knows what money they're actually working with come July. But that certainty ends about there. The water story that keeps us all awake at
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Ty's Take The commissioners made the right call on that data center moratorium, even if the reasoning got buried in the usual back-and-forth. Thing is, we've got Spaceport America finally gaining traction after years of slow builds and broken promises, and slapping a massive
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Ty's Take The new police building's finally moving off the drawing board, which means someone's going to start hammering nails and running wire in a town that's seen its fair share of construction delays. Bringing in an El Paso outfit makes sense
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Ty's Take School's back in session down in Arrey, which means the usual shuffle of new teachers finding their classrooms and kids figuring out where the bathrooms are. Two new educators are joining the Tiger family this year, and that's worth noting in a
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