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Ty's Take Water's been the argument around here since before there was a town to argue about it, and this week's commission decision on tax rates tells you something: we're still betting on what comes next. The mining story makes that bet
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Ty's Take The Copper Flat hearing is coming up again, and before the room fills with certainty on either side, it's worth remembering what actually sits on the table. This mine has been proposed and delayed and studied to death since the 1980s, long enough that
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Ty's Take Elephant Butte keeps dropping, and now somebody's trying to pull water out of the air at Spaceport America while we're under a conservation alert down here in town. You'd think that'd be backwards, but this is the kind
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Ty's Take Quarter of a billion dollars doesn't sound like a small-town number, but out here it's the price of staying alive. The next $25 million chunk of that water system work matters more than most of the infrastructure spending you'll
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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