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Ty's Take Water's running high this time of year, and the lake's been pulling hard on anybody fool enough to underestimate her—two drowning calls in as many days out on the Niangua arm tells you something about spring on the Ozarks. We'
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Ty's Take Chip seal season is here again, which means the next few weeks are going to feel like your truck's suspension is getting a personal workout every time you head out to the ranch or over to Las Cruces. Luna County's got crews
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Ty's Take Slow week up the valley, which around here usually means folks are out working—calving season doesn't wait for news cycles, and the acequia boards have their hands full sorting water rights before the runoff peaks. The quiet weeks are when you notice who&
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Ty's Take Spring in Billings moves fast—one week you're watching the snow melt off the rims, the next you've got graduates walking across the stage at MetraPark and neighbors you've known for fifty years showing up in the obituaries. MSU Billings
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Ty's Take Amellie Warner's been running ScSEED long enough to know that economic development in the San Luis Valley doesn't look like it does in Denver or Grand Junction—we're not chasing tech startups or throwing incentives at chain operations that'
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Ty's Take There's a real bright spot in today's paper, and it's worth holding onto: Holloman's Project SEARCH, putting local kids in front of actual jobs and real mentors instead of sending them out blind into the world. That matters
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Ty's Take Independence Drive's new overpass finally opened this week after decades of talk and planning, which is the kind of infrastructure win that doesn't make headlines in Kansas City but matters plenty in a county seat trying to move cattle, hay, and people
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Ty's Take The Hummingbird Fire creeping toward 4,000 acres puts everything else in sharp relief—the museum director's troubles, the commission race, even the Tour of the Gila drawing cyclists from across the world. When smoke's in the air and containment lines are
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Ty's Take The small business conference heading down to Ignacio next Wednesday might be the most practical thing on this week's agenda—eight opinion pieces about government overreach won't pay the light bill, but a roomful of local owners swapping what's actually
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Ty's Take The data center fight that packed Camden County's commission chambers last week says everything about what this lake region is becoming—and what it's fighting to stay. You've got new outlet malls breaking ground, the boat gas report coming back
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Ty's Take There's something quietly telling about what shows up in the local news on a Tuesday—free tire disposal, a poster contest two years out, bells ringing to mark whatever occasion. It means city hall is thinking small and steady, which in a place like
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Ty's Take Two women bickering over bingo money, a school superintendent heading for the door, the county commission drawing a line against uranium mining—and somewhere in between, a tennis team winning districts and a film hauling home awards. This is what a week looks like in a