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Alamosa Daily Digest Monday, September 14, 2026

Ty's Take

Somebody put about 150 pride flags along Main Street this week, and if you drove through town and didn't notice, you weren't paying attention. SLV Pride has been doing this work quietly for a couple years now, but there's something different about seeing it this visible, this permanent, even if it's just for a few days. In a valley as old as ours, where the Spanish colonial roots run deeper than most places in this country can claim, we've had a long time to figure out who belongs here and who doesn't. Turns out the answer keeps changing, which is maybe how it should be. Those flags aren't really about one week in June anyway, not anymore.

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SLV Pride plants flags for the future

SLV Pride held its annual parade through downtown Alamosa on a Saturday morning in August, with participants planting rainbow flags along Main Street as a symbol of LGBTQ+ affirmation and protest. Co-president Vince Alcon emphasized that Pride demonstrates to the next generation that people can be...

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West Plains Daily Digest Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Ty's Take We lost some good ones this week, the kind of people who showed up and did their work without needing much fanfare about it. Earl Souder, Jackie Owens, Charles Williams, Janice Bentley, and Chris Nelson are names that meant something in Howell County, whether folks knew

Truth or Consequences Daily Digest Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Ty's Take The dam keeps breaking, the mine keeps talking, and now somebody new owns the voting machines, but nobody around here seems quite sure what any of it means yet. That's not complaint, just observation. Water's the real story underneath all three, if

Silver City Daily Digest Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Ty's Take Two days of heavy rain coming through Friday has the National Weather Service keeping a close eye on our arroyos and low-water crossings, and the timing couldn't be tighter with that prescribed burn they're planning to start tomorrow up near Pinos

Salida Daily Digest Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Ty's Take Buena Vista's got two mayoral candidates ready to make their pitch, and Salida's got the theater pulling together a show about what "home" means while the Housing Authority works on making sure anybody can actually afford one around here anymore.