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Ty's Take Election season's heating up early in Otero County, which means the usual parade of promises is already rolling through town—and in a military community like ours, those promises tend to land different than they do in Santa Fe or Albuquerque. A gubernatorial ticket
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Ty's Take The boil advisory lifting in Mountain View is the kind of quiet good news that doesn't make headlines but matters plenty to folks who've been boiling water for their coffee and their livestock—turns out the infrastructure stuff, the pipes and the
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Ty's Take Ryan Williams didn't sugarcoat it this week when he said Sierra County is on its own when it comes to FEMA money—and that's the kind of straight talk a county administrator has to give when the federal cupboard's bare.
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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