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Ty's Take Victor Hanson's column landing in the paper today—pushing back on the idea that we're trapped in some inevitable conflict spiral with China—hits different out here where half the economy runs on defense contracts and the other half worries those contracts
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Ty's Take The rain that hit southwestern Howell County hard enough to trigger a flash flood warning Tuesday is the kind that comes down like a bucket turned upside down—good for the pastures and stock tanks, bad for anybody caught in a low water crossing or parked
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Ty's Take End-of-year banquets tend to blur together after you've covered enough of them, but there's something worth marking when a place like the Elephant Butte Golf and Country Club still has the juice to bring people together—especially in a county where the
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Ty's Take Looks like somebody finally got around to updating the town's travel guide, which might sound like small potatoes until you remember that most visitors rolling into Pagosa are working off information that's five years old or older. The hot springs are still
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Ty's Take Sunday night's storms didn't leave much room for debate—folks around here know the difference between a scare and the real thing, and we got both. The water's running clear again in Eldon, which matters more than most folks realize
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Ty's Take Seventy-nine dollars' worth of merchandise and an arrest—that's what it cost somebody at a store in our territory this week, which tells you something about the state of things when desperation or thoughtlessness lands you in front of a judge over less
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Ty's Take Most towns measure their summer by when the beer gardens open and the tourists show up. Billings measures it by ZooMontana events—when you know the whole city's about to tear itself loose for a few hours and remember why living here beats about
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Ty's Take Most days around here you can tell what's eating at people by what makes it into the paper. Today we've got a syndicated column about fraud rings, a shelter dog looking for a home, and the third installment of Lucy Raley'
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Ty's Take We've lost four good women this week—Virginia Adams, Betty Jean Riley, Janet Marie Moritz, and Sylvia Atkisson—and that's the kind of toll that reminds you how these hills hold their people close and tight. Meanwhile, the roads around us keep
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Ty's Take Water's been the conversation around here since before we renamed this town fifty years ago, and come late May the monsoon talk usually means dust storms and flash flood watches down the arroyos. But when the Citizen's leading with overconsumption in the
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Ty's Take The hospital's trying to fight back against bad information spreading around town, which is a fight worth having but also exhausting to watch—people believe what they want to believe, and a press release only goes so far. Meanwhile, we've got kids
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in a town where the genealogical society draws enough interest to fill a meeting and the arts festival comes back for a fifth consecutive year—both say the same thing about a place that's figured out how to