Antonito Daily Digest Saturday, July 11, 2026
Ty's Take
Primary numbers are in across the valley, and the usual suspects are running strong—but the real story is how quiet the turnout stayed even with the term limits question sitting right there on the ballot. Commissioners are doing what they always do when the hard calls come around: asking the voters to make it instead. Out here where family names carry weight and people know who's been sitting in those seats for twenty years, that's not exactly a cop-out—it's just how things work. But don't mistake a light primary turnout for apathy; come November, when the snow's off the high country and folks have had six months to think about it, that conversation gets a whole lot louder.
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