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Ty's Take The Stillwater Mine agreement ending a month of strikes is the kind of news that matters to working people across the whole region, but the real story might be sitting right there in the driveway approvals the council just passed. Wider, larger driveways after Missoula builders
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Ty's Take The strike's settled down in Nye and Columbus, and that tentative agreement the union voted to accept means the Burlington Northern crews and yard workers over there can get back to normal operations pretty quick now. These labor disputes in the rail yards always
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Ty's Take Fire season's already knocking on the door up here, and nine acres burning on Schrader Creek over near Del Norte is a reminder that the high country doesn't wait for anybody to get ready. That's Rio Grande National Forest land,
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Ty's Take Vasquez's push for tighter WIPP oversight in Carlsbad is the kind of thing that ripples through this whole basin whether folks pay attention or not, because what happens with that repository affects water, affects trust, affects whether we're serious about hosting something
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Ty's Take The obit pages today carry the names of people who built this place, and the fire fighters memorial honors those who ran toward the danger when others ran the other way. That matters and deserves to be said plain. But there's a different kind
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Ty's Take Copper Flat's been kicking around these conversations for years now, and the hearing this week is the same old dance: some folks see jobs and tax base, others see what a mine does to water in a county where water is already spoken for
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Ty's Take Saturday's going to look different on these county roads if you're not expecting it. The Bike the Gila event brings out riders from all over, folks who see these roads the way hikers see trails, and for a few hours the pavement
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Ty's Take The ArtWalk coming up the second weekend of October used to be the thing that told you summer was officially done and the real Salida came back out to play, and thirty-three years in it still does that, though you can feel the crowd growing
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Ty's Take Somebody's finally making noise about the Dillon Log Cabin, and that matters more than it might sound to folks just passing through on I-44. These old structures don't stick around by accident, and they don't disappear by accident either.
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Ty's Take The BLM's open comment period on local land management and the forecast talk about winter heading into uncharted territory—these aren't separate stories around here, they're the same conversation. When the feds put out the call for public input on
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Ty's Take Tomorrow night's council meeting on Ponderosa Mountain deserves more than the usual Tuesday crowd in folding chairs. This isn't just another rezoning fight, though God knows we've had plenty of those. What we're really arguing about is what
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Ty's Take The Comprehensive Plan revision hearing Wednesday night in White Rock is worth your time if you've got questions about where this county goes next, because right now the pressure valve is wide open. The Lab keeps growing, Santa Fe keeps looking north toward cheaper