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A New Mexico restaurant is trying its hand at making a new ketchup recipe specifically for hot dogs. At Year of the Dog in Raton, a lot of their homemade sauces and toppings are from scratch so making a new ketchup seemed like a no-brainer. Mahasin and Naemon Thurman own the gourmet hot dog restaurant. It started as a street cart in Trinidad, Colorado but in 2020 they opened up a walk-up restaurant. The Thurman’s believe ketchup gets a bad rap and wanted to see if they can give the condiment a makeover. Their new ketchup is a bit thicker...

Interstate 25 is closed over Raton Pass because of a large wildfire burning just south of the Colorado border with New Mexico. The Track Fire has now grown to 2,700 acres. About 200 structures, both residential and commercial, are threatened by the blaze.

I guess they can't get a good pina colada in Manhattan: New York City's teachers may do well to ask why their union, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), has an office in Boca Raton, Florida. A recent article in the New York Post figured that rent alone for the Boca Raton branch costs UFT members $183,603 per year. That's not peanuts for a union fretting about its financially strapped members.