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Ty's Take Three kids from Escalante got their shot this year, and that matters more than most of the noise coming down from Santa Fe these days. In a valley where families have worked the same land for four, five, sometimes six generations, every young person who gets
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Ty's Take A hundred fifty years is long enough that most of us think we've settled the hard questions, but the Little Bighorn centennial coverage this week reminds you that some ground—literal and moral—stays contested in Montana. The photographs, the tribal reflections, the careful
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Ty's Take Nobody wants to read about a child abuse case on a Tuesday morning, but this is Conejos County, and we don't look away from what happens in our own backyard. Mari Felix's guilty plea is the kind of hard local news that
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Ty's Take South Fork's got plenty of reasons to be grateful this week—two people walked away from a plane crash that could've ended a whole lot different, and that's the kind of luck you don't take for granted up
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Ty's Take A triple murder trial grinding through District Court is the kind of heavy lifting that reminds you why small towns need their courts working right—not for the spectacle, but because justice here means something personal, names you know, families torn open in front of your
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Ty's Take When a sheriff gets a letter asking for money to investigate a case, it's worth asking hard questions about how we fund law enforcement in county seats like ours—and whether the people running those operations are doing right by the badge they wear.
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Ty's Take You can feel the town shifting underneath you when the city commission opens the door to tiny homes and the state cuts a check for a new middle school in the same week. That's not just zoning and construction—that's T or
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Ty's Take The last dance hall in Silver City is closing its doors, and that's worth sitting with for a minute—not because we're losing some glamorous relic, but because places like the Flame were where this town actually lived. You could walk in
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Ty's Take The Eagles Nest has been part of Red Lodge's skyline longer than most of us have been alive, and watching it sit there broken after last year's floods has been like watching a neighbor's house fall into disrepair—you keep
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Ty's Take We're staring down November with a ballot full of hard choices, and the one that ought to keep county commissioners up at night is Initiative 175. Diverting state road funds sounds like a local fix until you remember that every dollar Colorado sends our
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Ty's Take That truck went down at the boat ramp near Bagnell Dam, and by now most folks around here know it—the water's been running high and fast, and the Osage doesn't forgive carelessness or bad luck the way the lake sometimes does.
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Ty's Take The museum funding cut stings because it always does—we trim the things that make a place worth living in, then wonder why our kids leave. But there's something worth watching in how the county's threading this needle: they're not