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Ty's Take Fire season's never really left the San Luis Valley—it just gets quieter in the shoulder months before flaring back up. The Schrader Creek burn near Del Norte is still small at nine acres, which is the kind of number that means something got
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Ty's Take The county commissioners are putting DA term limits on the ballot this fall, which tells you something about how this office has worn some people down over the years—and how fractured things have gotten between the board and whoever sits in that seat. Meanwhile, down
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Ty's Take When the heat index climbs past 110, you start seeing the real backbone of this county—the folks who have to keep working anyway. Cattle don't stop needing water because it's dangerous out there, and neither do the crews at the stockyards
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Ty's Take Water's always been the real mayor around here, and this week's story about T or C's senior rights on the Rio Grande is a reminder that whoever controls the tap controls the future—which means our city council's
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Ty's Take Water's running where it usually doesn't, which out here means paying attention to which roads are still passable and which ones have turned into temporary arroyos. The Mimbres is up, wet roads are slicking things around Deming and Akela, and the Forest
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Ty's Take The ballot delivery fight and the essay club meeting on the same page tells you something about where we're at—half the town worried the mail won't get there, half convinced democracy itself is on life support, and everybody else probably just
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Ty's Take The water notice hitting mailboxes this week is the kind of thing that gets everybody's attention around here, especially heading into summer when the creek's already running thin and the tourists start rolling in. But buried in the bureaucracy is something worth
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in how a slow summer week in Pagosa shapes up—gardens and music festivals, comedy nights and teen programs, folks thinking about past lives and what a satisfied mind might look like. It's the kind of lineup that
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Ty's Take What strikes you about a slow summer week in Los Alamos is how much of the real work gets done in the margins—a Shakespeare comedy on the lawn outside Hans Bethe's house, a suicide prevention course tucked into the library schedule, Leadership Los
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Ty's Take Lebanon's city council did right by the cemetery this week, locking in long-term support for a place that matters more than most people think until they need it. A small town's graveyard is its memory made literal—the names go back
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Ty's Take Good week to be a dog around here—one saved a family from a house fire while another got himself permanently affixed to church property, which pretty much sums up the range of outcomes you get when you're the smartest creature in the room.