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Ty's Take You don't need a PhD to notice that this town runs on infrastructure most of us never think about until something goes wrong—the gas lines under the hill, the water systems, the senior centers where people land when they can't live
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Ty's Take There's something about a Hollywood crew finding their way to Laclede County that makes you stop and think about what we've got here that the rest of the world wants to see. They're not coming for the interstate or the
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Ty's Take That missing person turned up safe after last night's search, and the dock girls who helped pull folks out of that storm did what lakeside people do when weather turns mean—they didn't hesitate. But you stack up a garage fire that
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Ty's Take Downtown Houston's been talking about needing work for longer than most folks care to remember, so the council moving forward on improvements is the kind of news that actually matters in a town this size—not flashy, but the kind of deliberate step that
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Ty's Take When a sexual abuse case gets pleaded down, the details matter less than what it says about how justice moves—or doesn't—in a county where everybody knows everybody and the courthouse is smaller than most folks' living rooms. Up here in Rio
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Ty's Take Legionnaire's disease at a downtown hotel, a data center question heading to court before voters get their say, animal control caught in a budget squeeze—this is the kind of week that reminds you Billings isn't just a regional hub, it'
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Ty's Take The Milwaukee Bridge finally got the green light, which means somebody upstairs believes we can actually fix what's been crumbling over the Yellowstone for the better part of a decade. July 16 bid solicitation puts this thing maybe a year out from actual construction,
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Ty's Take Slow week in print, but the kind that reminds you why small towns matter—a missing hiker walks out alive after two days in country that doesn't forgive mistakes, the Valley Courier rolls up its sleeves to come back better, and David Tandberg keeps
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Ty's Take Primary results are in and already the machinery's grinding for 2026, which tells you something about how these county races work—the moment one election closes, everybody's eyeing the next one. Meanwhile the real fights aren't happening in the voting
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Ty's Take The holiday weekend toll reads like a ledger nobody wants to keep—nine dead on the highways, three in the water, two teenagers hurt Sunday night, a woman thrown from a UTV, a man pulled from the Current River. The numbers stack up faster than we
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Ty's Take Water levels and winning seasons both matter in a town like ours, and this holiday stretch we're watching both sides of that coin. Elephant Butte sitting lower than folks want to see it—that's the conversation at every coffee counter and every
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Ty's Take Three weather stories hitting Grant County at once—wind advisory up north, flood warning down here, and the Sacaaton fire still drawing smoke over the Gila country—is the kind of day that reminds you why our grandparents built things solid and kept their gas tanks