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Ty's Take The ACC numbers floating around this week—those $47 million payouts to member schools—remind you why a place like West Plains has to think hard about its own economy and what keeps the lights on. We're not in that conference, and we'
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Ty's Take Graduation day in Truth or Consequences always feels like the whole town is breathing out together—and this year's parade down Main Street is going to be something. These kids have made it through everything from water uncertainty to the usual small-town distractions, and
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how a small town keeps its culture alive, and this week Pagosa's got three chances to see it happening. A kid named Travers Vasek is playing a senior recital—that's the moment when a young
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Ty's Take There's a particular weight to a Tuesday morning when the paper leads with the names of people who won't be around to read it. George Jackson made it to seventy; Paul Lawrence to eighty-four—both solid runs in this valley where the
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Ty's Take Memorial Day weekend's shaping up to be what it always is around here—boats in the water and wallets getting lighter at the pump. SuperSplash opens this weekend, which means the families with younger kids will have somewhere to point their cash besides the
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, and longer still to carry the weight of what happened to Tory Sanders through a community this size. Three people charged now, and former law enforcement facing their own reckoning—that's the kind of
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Ty's Take Gregg Hull's been around this country long enough to know that the real New Mexico isn't Santa Fe or Albuquerque—it's places like Chama and Abiquiú, where the land grants run deep and the water fights never really end. When
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Ty's Take Memorial Day weekend brought the things it always does—a parade down the main drag with folks waving from the curb, a head-on collision that could've been worse, and the quiet loss of neighbors whose names fill the back pages every week. There'
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Ty's Take The news out of the valley this week runs the full spectrum—relief that a missing woman's been found safe, word that two papers are joining forces to cover more ground, and the usual reminders that we're living between bigger forces that
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Ty's Take The El Pomar Foundation's grant to a Saguache County outfit is the kind of news that doesn't make anybody's blood pressure spike, but it's worth noticing anyway—these Colorado Springs foundations have long memories about the San Luis
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Ty's Take Politics in a military town runs different than most places—you've got federal workers, career officers, contractors, and ranchers all trying to figure out where their bread comes from, and they don't always agree on who gets to make those calls. Deb
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Ty's Take You see a city council willing to ask voters to fund themselves a little better, a nonprofit landing real money to do the work that keeps this county stitched together, and somewhere in the same news cycle, a locked-out workforce at Leonardo DRS heading into week