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Ty's Take Election season's already heating up in the valley, which means the road shows are rolling in and the usual promises are getting dusted off for another round. Alex Kelloff's bringing his By The People Tour through Alamosa, and fair enough—that'
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Ty's Take The Great Sand Dunes pulled in more visitors than ever these first four months of the year, which tells you something about what people are hungry for—space, silence, something that doesn't require a WiFi password. That's good news for the valley&
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Ty's Take There's something about late spring in Otero County when the all-star rosters come out and the fishing reports turn serious—it's the moment when kids and their parents both remember why they stick around a place like this. Four or five
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Ty's Take Milan Mimcilovic turning down the NBA draft to play college ball at Kentucky tells you something about West Plains and what this town can build when it decides to do something right—a kid with legitimate pro options choosing the long road instead, and choosing to
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Ty's Take The new auditor's coming in swinging, and Truth or Consequences is getting the kind of hard look it probably needed anyway—no sugar, just the numbers on whether this town's been padding its utility revenues like they used to do back in
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Ty's Take First responders in Grant County had themselves a hell of a Wednesday afternoon—rolling out on what looked like a routine overdose call only to get caught in some kind of airborne hazard that sent them scrambling. We don't have all the details yet,
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Ty's Take Water's been a conversation at every coffee shop counter in this valley for years now, and when the town has to shut it off—even for maintenance, even for a few hours—it reminds everyone why. Red Lodge sits where it does because of
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Ty's Take Highway 160 tearing up downtown this week means you'll either find an alternate route or you'll sit in it—and honestly, either way it's probably worth the aggravation if it gets us a road that won't need this
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Ty's Take There's a boil order in Eldon again, which means somebody's water treatment isn't holding like it should, and that gets people's attention in a lake region where water quality touches everything from tourism to property values to whether
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Ty's Take That wrong-way crash on I-10 is the kind of story that stops you cold—one person dead, another facing homicide charges, and somewhere in between a series of choices that can't be unmade. We've all seen the highway safety campaigns,
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Ty's Take The Democratic primary result shouldn't surprise anybody up here—Haaland's got deep roots in the valley, understands the water politics and the land-grant issues that keep folks awake at night, and she's been doing the work long enough that
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Ty's Take The cardboard recycling program gets the axe while a tribal health clinic faces hard questions about opioid distribution—two stories that show how every decision, even the small ones about what we throw away, ripples through a region that's still learning to take care