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Ty's Take The kind of week where Silver City's getting five million dollars for healthcare while two towns in the county are tangled up in audits and federal trouble tells you something about the luck of the draw around here. Money flows to the health clinics
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Ty's Take There's something about a Monday chase down U.S. 180 that gets people talking around here, and by Tuesday morning the whole county's already picked it apart in the coffee shops and on the scanner. State Police do their job, an arrest
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Ty's Take You can read a lot into a town by what it argues about, and Silver City's having a real one right now. We're fighting over intersection redesigns and landfill fees and whether a compost operation makes sense for our recycling future, which
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Ty's Take Two community institutions marking milestones this week, and both tell you something about what holds Silver City together. The Woman's Club bringing families in for a day of activities is the kind of glue work that doesn't make anybody's name
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how this town handles its pieces, and Jose Barrios's legacy moving into a new home at Aldo Leopold School tells you most of what you need to know. Barrios spent decades pulling this community toward its better
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Ty's Take Nobody wants to see a school lose its fields, but the talk about Altamirano is worth paying attention to because it says something about how tight things are getting around here. When a district starts looking at what it owns and thinking hard about what it
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Ty's Take The weather's been trying to kill us and help us in equal measure this week. Dust storms rolled through hard enough to close roads while flash flooding hit the Mule Creek area, which is the kind of violent swing that keeps folks in Grant
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Ty's Take Back-to-school season tends to hide the harder conversations around here, and Wednesday night in Bayard is proof. While WNMU gets ready to welcome students back and folks are signing kids up for puppet workshops, the town council has to look at raising landfill rates,
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Ty's Take José Coll's been in the WNMU president's chair long enough now to know what he's walking into, and if the Beat piece tells us anything, it's that he's thinking past the next budget cycle. That matters
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Ty's Take The Silver City council got through their budget scrape this week without the kind of public bloodletting that usually follows money votes around here, which either means folks are tired of fighting or the arguments happened behind closed doors where they always do. Either way, the
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Ty's Take Grant County commissioners are about to test something we don't talk about enough around here: how much more people will pay when they don't have much choice. The solid waste fee increase is coming, and yeah, the county probably needs it, but
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Ty's Take The money talk in Grant County this week keeps circling back to the same question: who gets to spend what we've got? Hurley's pushing for a bigger slice of that $26 million water fund, Silver City's eyeing more revenue through