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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
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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