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Ty's Take The Bear Fire's been pushing crews hard for over a week now, but yesterday's numbers suggest the weather's finally breaking their way—containment crept up another few points, and they've got aircraft back in rotation. In a county
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Ty's Take There's a wolf dead up in Routt County this week, and down here we're still sorting through what that means for the rest of us living on the San Juans' eastern slope. Colorado Parks and Wildlife says it had no collar,
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Ty's Take The Fourth of July looked different this year before it even got here—Osage Beach dropping the parade but keeping the fireworks, which is its own kind of statement about what matters most when the calendar fills up and the crowds roll in. But underneath the
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Ty's Take Water's tight up here, always has been, but the Los Alamos Co-op's push for a hundred grand tells you something about where the real pressure sits these days—not on the Chama or the Abiquiú watershed, but on the smaller operations
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Ty's Take The news from Helena about sex trafficking, the Title IX fight up in Kalispell, and Community Medical's move to remote pediatric ICU doctors all point to the same uncomfortable truth: institutions we depend on are cutting corners or, worse, failing to protect the people
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Ty's Take Drought's got a way of forcing choices nobody wants to make, and Alamosa just made one—no fireworks over the valley this July Fourth. It's the kind of decision that hits different in a place where water's always been the
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Ty's Take The Barela case is done now, and that's probably the right outcome, but it leaves a question that won't quit: how did we get to a place where a sitting official ends up fighting the state all the way to the Supreme
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Ty's Take A skydiving operation out of a Missouri airfield came down hard yesterday, killing all twelve people aboard—the kind of tragedy that stops a place cold, even one used to loss. We don't know yet what went wrong or where exactly it happened, but
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Ty's Take Monsoon season's knocking early this year, which ordinarily would be good news—except we're already talking water overconsumption before the dry months even hit. That's the tight spot Sierra County finds itself in again: praying for rain to fill Elephant
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Ty's Take Fireworks bans in Bayard, animal ordinances in Hurley, and now the town council learning that turkey vultures have taken a liking to Silver City—seems like Grant County is spending a lot of energy on the small stuff while our kids are heading to nationals in
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Ty's Take The Forest Service rolling out a new app to route hikers and hunters through the high country makes sense—Lord knows we need folks using trails smart, especially with how fire season keeps creeping earlier. But that same day's story about food insecurity in
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Ty's Take You notice pretty quick in a town this size that the hard conversations happen in church basements and community centers, not on Main Street over coffee—which maybe says something about who we are and what we need right now. This week alone you've