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Ty's Take Sixteen school districts hitting perfect marks on bus inspections is the kind of news that doesn't make anybody's blood race, but it ought to. You're talking about mechanics and drivers and fleet coordinators who've made safety routine enough
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Ty's Take The Supreme Court's Texas v. New Mexico decision lands at exactly the wrong moment for a town built on water it doesn't fully control—and that's before you look at how Truth or Consequences actually pays its bills. A city
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Ty's Take A quarter million dollars gone because two parties couldn't find middle ground—that's what the museum standoff cost this town, and it's the kind of wound Silver City can't afford to keep picking at. We've got
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Ty's Take A University of Montana researcher out studying how those big atmospheric river storms actually recharge groundwater in the West—that's the kind of work that matters more than most people realize when you're living on top of your water rights and watching
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Ty's Take The water district staying in Drought Stage 1, the school board wrestling with questions nobody's got easy answers to, Habitat for Humanity pushing a new housing push, and the federal government just now realizing there's a healthcare desert out here—it all
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Ty's Take Three good men from this valley in the paper today—Shannyn Caldwell, Timothy Joseph Hourigan, and George Douglas Jackson, who made it to 70. In a town that's growing as fast as Las Cruces is, where the orchards keep giving way to subdivisions and
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Ty's Take Three powerboat incidents in one Saturday afternoon at the Shootout races, a rescue from the Community Bridge, a fatal crash on a county road—that's the kind of weekend that reminds you the lake doesn't care how many boats are registered or
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, longer still when the questions involve your own law enforcement, but Shannon County is finally getting somewhere with the Tory Sanders case—three people charged with murder, former deputies facing their own reckoning, and the kind
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Ty's Take Father's Day's coming up fast, and if you're still staring at a blank slate on what to get the old man, you're not alone—most of us wait until the last possible second anyway. The thing about buying
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Ty's Take Kevin Iffland's staying put as interim city administrator for now, which tells you something about how Billings operates when the real work needs doing—no rush to fill every chair, no political theater around the hiring process. This is a city that knows its
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Ty's Take Nobody in this county wakes up wanting to read about a child abuse case, but here we are—Mari Felix pleading guilty to two counts is the kind of local news that sits heavy in a small place where everybody knows everybody. The court system did
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in how this valley keeps showing up for itself on a Wednesday. Ecoflight's taking people up to see what their public lands actually look like from ten thousand feet—that's the kind of clarity we need