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Ty's Take When a town finishes the year three and a half million dollars under budget, you either had a good year or a lean one, and around Truth or Consequences those two things aren't always easy to separate. We've been running on fumes
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Ty's Take The city's got big plans and a stack of bonds to pay for them, which is fine until the water lawyers remind us that Elephant Butte isn't ours to promise away. That settlement with Sean Barnes and the ongoing dust-up over
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Ty's Take Water's been the subject around here long enough that you'd think we'd be used to watching the levels drop, but something about low water at Elephant Butte brings out the cleanup crews like nothing else. There's a practical
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Ty's Take Water's been the conversation around here since before Truth or Consequences was even Truth or Consequences, and this spring it's the only conversation that matters. Elephant Butte's level dictates whether ranchers downstream get their irrigation, whether the lake stays a
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Ty's Take The commissioners just pumped the brakes on a data center at Spaceport America, and you can feel the tension underneath that unanimous vote. Nobody around here is against growth, but there's a real question about what kind of growth makes sense in the high
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Ty's Take The commission approved rate increases this week, which nobody loves but everybody understands, and they found money in the budget for roads that have needed attention longer than most of us care to remember. Meanwhile the new police building is getting outfitted by an El Paso
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Ty's Take Water's always the argument around here, and this week it's showing up in two different forms. Up in court, Texas and New Mexico are still hammering each other over Rio Grande allocations, the kind of legal fight that determines whether Elephant Butte
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Ty's Take Two small stories today, but they point at something real about what holds a town together when money's tight and futures are uncertain. An art auction brought people in, which means somebody's making something beautiful around here instead of just complaining, and
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Ty's Take The city's hammering out another bond issue for water and roads while the lake keeps dropping, which tells you everything you need to know about where we are right now. We're past the point of hoping for rain and into the point
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Ty's Take The water argument never stops around here, and the Citizen's piece on development and the Colorado Compact isn't wrong to sound the alarm. We've all watched what happens downstream when upstream doesn't play by the rules, and Texas
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Ty's Take Water's the only story that matters down here, and right now we're living in the margins of it. The chile harvest is coming in around Arrey, same as it always does, and that's good news for the folks who'
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Ty's Take The county commissioners made the call most folks around here already had in their heads—pump the brakes on data centers out at Spaceport America, at least for now. Nobody's against progress, but there's a difference between the kind that fits who