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Ty's Take Every August when the heat settles in and people start thinking about back-to-school, somebody around here remembers that not every kid in Luna County walks into September with a full backpack. Stuff The Bus has been running long enough now that folks know the drill—you
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in how a third-grade class in Helena turned a fairy tale inside out—Gold E. Locks walked free, the three bears' case fell apart, and a bunch of eight-year-olds learned that the law isn't about who we
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Ty's Take Ted Turner didn't invent the mythology around himself—this country did, and he was smart enough to lean into it. The man bought land here, raised buffalo, and lived the way he wanted to live, which in southwest Montana means you become either a
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Ty's Take CDOT's got crews tearing into the road around Antonito again, which means if you're heading south toward the New Mexico line—whether it's for business, family, or just to chase better weather—you'd better pad your timeline and
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Ty's Take When a man from Mescalero pleads guilty to assaulting an officer, you're looking at the kind of moment that sits different in a town like ours—where the base, the range, and the reservation all occupy the same airspace and history runs deep and
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Ty's Take Forty-five thousand birds during spring season tells you the turkey hunting's been good around here, which means come fall the woods'll be thinner and the freezers fuller—that's how this country works, season to season, and it's honest
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Ty's Take Grant County's got some Republican write-in candidates in the mix this cycle, which means somebody wasn't happy with the primary lineup—or saw an opening nobody else spotted. Write-in campaigns around here are usually personal, born from somebody's kitchen table
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Ty's Take Montana's going to let people register and vote the same day come November, which is the kind of thing that sounds simple until you're actually running a polling place and trying to verify someone's residency while the line's
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Ty's Take Josh Sanchez coming in as the new principal at Pagosa High is the kind of institutional stability this town needs right now, especially with wildfire season bearing down and half the county's attention split between tourism dollars and survival logistics. A new leader at
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Ty's Take One of our own—a Mizzou kid—took a bullet meant for somebody else at a concert down in Mississippi, and that's the kind of story that hits different when you know the families involved come from around here. The weekend arrest reports and
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Ty's Take A wrong-way driver on I-10 killed someone yesterday, and now faces a homicide charge tied to impaired driving—the kind of tragedy that doesn't need much explaining, just acknowledging. Same day, the DAGSHIP grant came through to fund hundreds of spay and neuter surgeries
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Ty's Take Spring's late this far north, but if El Vecino's telling folks it's time to get the leafy stuff in the ground, then the soil temperature's probably right and the frost window's closing fast enough to take