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Ty's Take Water's always been the real mayor around here, and this week's story about T or C's senior rights on the Rio Grande is a reminder that whoever controls the tap controls the future—which means our city council's
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Ty's Take Water's been the conversation around here since before most of us can remember, but watching Elephant Butte slip lower every season hits different when you see it in the official numbers. The lake that keeps this whole region breathing—tourism, irrigation, ranchers downstream—doesn&
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Ty's Take Water fights, space dreams, and sewage don't usually share the same editorial real estate, but that's Sierra County in 2024—we're stretched thin defending our Rio Grande allocation against Texas while Spaceport America still hunts for its first real tenant
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Ty's Take The fourth bond measure in as many years tells you everything you need to know about where the money's going around here—water systems that can't keep up, roads that never stop crumbling, and wastewater infrastructure that's playing catch-up
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Ty's Take When schools start picking up the tab for pencils and notebooks again, you know something's shifted in how we're thinking about equity around here. Truth or Consequences High's TigerSharks making it to Sundance State is the kind of news that
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Ty's Take Our little corner of the state's been grinding through the usual spring shuffle—bond votes, school budgets, a fresh hand at the General Store—but what caught me this week was how much of it points in the same direction. The VFW getting recognized,
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Ty's Take Williamsburg's new budget reads like a town that's finally convinced itself the future's worth building for—ninety cents of every dollar going straight into capital projects instead of just keeping the lights on and patching potholes. You don't
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Ty's Take Free sports physicals for all Tiger student athletes—that's the kind of thing that sounds simple until you're the parent trying to scrape together a couple hundred dollars before your kid can suit up. Sierra County's not exactly flush with
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Ty's Take Heat's coming hard into the basin, and the usual warnings about hydration and shade don't quite cut it out here—we're talking about the kind of temperatures that can turn a short walk into something serious, especially for the older
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Ty's Take The wastewater plant keeps us honest—can't build much of a future on broken pipes and fingernail-thin margins, which is why the commission's push on tiny homes reads less like vision and more like necessity. You've got Spaceport America
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Ty's Take The county's heading back to the bond market again, which means someone up in the Commission offices thinks the water situation, the roads, and the pipes running underneath us all need another infusion of cash. Fourth time in a generation we've asked
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Ty's Take They've gone and put a robot to work in the Sierra County schools, which tells you something about where we are right now—not just in education, but in a town that's betting on the future while half the county's