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Ty's Take Tight budgets aren't new around here, but there's something worth noting when a town finishes the year three and a half million dollars under what it planned to spend. That's not accident, and it's not hardship either. It&
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Ty's Take The Copper Flat Mine hearings keep landing back on the same hard question, and it's the only one that matters out here: what happens to Elephant Butte when you start pulling water upstream for industrial use? County commissioners are right to dig in on
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Ty's Take The hospital's budget passed, which is good news for a place like ours where the nearest alternatives are a half hour or more down the road, and the wildfire crews are gearing up for another season that seems to start earlier and run hotter
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Ty's Take Water, jobs, and how we run this county. That's the order they usually come in around here, and today's paper lands all three on the table at once. The copper mine hearing is the big one, because that operation sits upstream and
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Ty's Take There's a rhythm to small-town life that shows up in the paper if you know where to look. This week you've got Serina Bartoo getting recognized by the hospital board, the volleyball team hosting the Alex Carter Memorial Tournament, and the
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Ty's Take The Copper Flat Mine hearing is back again, which tells you something about how these things wear on a community. Meanwhile, the city and county are trying to get ahead of sprawl with that new MOU on edge development, transit's shifting its routes to
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Ty's Take Interior Secretary Haaland coming back through town, roasting chile firing up again in Arrey, and EBID sitting down to figure out next year's water numbers, all in the same week, tells you something about how we live here. The federal government's got
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Ty's Take When a town finishes the year three and a half million dollars under budget, there's usually a story underneath about what didn't happen, and that matters more than the number itself. T or C came in lean, which in lean times can
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Ty's Take The copper mine talk never really stops around here, and another hearing on Copper Flat means another round of the same calculus we've been doing for years: what's the upside against what we might lose. Meanwhile, the city council just passed a
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Ty's Take Budget season in Sierra County tends to sort itself out the way it always does, which is to say the real work happens in closed rooms before anybody votes yes. The hospital's FY2027 budget passing means the lights stay on and the emergency room
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Ty's Take The copper mine hearing, the spaceport whistleblower's mixed court results, and a police building contract going down to El Paso instead of staying closer to home—three stories that say something true about where we are right now. We're caught between the
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Ty's Take Foch Street is open again, which means downtown can breathe a little easier and maybe folks will remember why they parked there in the first place. Road work in a town this size hits different, ties up the whole rhythm of things, and we've