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Ty's Take A judge's ruling on abortion law in Missouri lands hard in a state that's been wound tight on the issue for years, but down here in Howell County the real news might be quieter and closer to home—Baxter Health earning back
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of tired that sets in when you watch a city commission spend the better part of an autumn on interim budgets and stated goals instead of actual decisions. Truth or Consequences has real problems—water security tied to Elephant Butte,
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Ty's Take The Bear Fire's finally giving people their lives back, at least the ones who've been watching ash fall on their porches and keeping a bag packed by the door. Set status lifted means you can stop sleeping in your car, stop wondering
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Ty's Take Water's been the conversation around here for months—drought stage two coming down the pike, highway reconstruction tearing up 160, folks worried about what next summer looks like. But today's real news is simpler and maybe more important: a food drive on
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman's passing hits different when you've watched this valley change the way it has over the last couple decades—she was the kind of person who actually stayed, who put down roots deep enough that they mattered. Meanwhile, out
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Ty's Take High-speed chase on the lake this weekend ended with a teenager thrown from his vehicle, and you can read the details in today's paper—but what strikes you is the timing. We're heading into the busiest season the Ozarks sees all
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration came down today, and if you've been watching the sky the way most of us have—dry as a popcorn fart since last spring—it lands about three months too late. What matters now is what comes next:
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Ty's Take When a week's news runs light on crisis and heavy on the sweet stuff—a new candy treat, a commander's promotion, pilgrims on the trail, a film coming home, and folks gathering to talk energy—you get a pretty clear picture of
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Ty's Take There's something about the way a small city honors its own that says more than any mission statement ever could. Today we're reading about smokejumpers getting their final jump from a vintage plane, neighbors we've lost, a young person from
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how this valley moves when somebody asks hard questions about where food actually comes from. The Pioneer's piece on local markets and food security isn't abstract—it's about whether a rancher's
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Ty's Take Fire season's here whether we're ready or not, and most of the valley's under restrictions now—which means anybody thinking about burning slash piles or clearing land needs to check before they strike a match, because one dry spark in
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Ty's Take The EPA coming to town to answer questions about the Superfund project is the kind of thing that gets people talking in this valley—and for good reason, since we've been living with the aftermath of that contamination longer than most folks want to