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Ty's Take Violence doesn't usually come looking for you in the Española area—it's the kind of thing you read about happening somewhere else, in bigger places where people don't know their neighbors. But twice in recent days, somebody's blood
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching when people show up to City Council on a Tuesday night—means something's pushed them off the couch and into the chamber, means the thing being decided matters enough to take the time. Billings has grown fast enough
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Ty's Take When a family murder case breaks open like this—with one suspect flipping to testify against another—it usually means the DA's got enough to move forward, and someone in that family decided the math had changed. Cassandra Douglas taking a plea deal to
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Ty's Take Fire restrictions are back at Santa Clara, wind advisories are stacked like cordwood, and we're heading into what looks like another dry spring—the kind that makes you remember why those old mining towns burned down so easy, and why folks around here stopped
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of trust that gets broken when government work happens without anyone knowing about it. The CG treatment moving forward in our area without public meetings or impact studies sits wrong—not because the work might be necessary, but because folks
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Ty's Take U.S. 160 is getting torn up again—dogleg near the old courthouse pushed back by weather, additional work zones west of town going to snarl things the week after next—and if you've got business in town or a commute that depends on
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Ty's Take We lost some good ones this week—men who'd put down roots here and stayed, which means something in a town that's grown as fast as this one has. George Jackson, Paul Lawrence, James Creek—names that show up in the community
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Ty's Take Three tornadoes touched down in Morgan County Monday, and by some miracle—or maybe just the grace of people who know their landscape—nobody died. Firefighters sheltering from an EF-1 at a lightning-struck house fire, residents in basements, drivers who'd seen enough storms to
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Ty's Take May's shaping up to be one of those months where Deming remembers who it is—Old West Heritage Days coming to the fairgrounds, the arts center filling up, a scholarship benefit that'll take us back to the 80s, and now pickleball courts
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Ty's Take Slow week up north, which means you're seeing the real texture of things—a man charged in a domestic, another claiming the devil's got his friend's ear, copper wire disappearing off a business, the usual friction that happens when folks
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Ty's Take The machinery of voting—the deadlines, the forms, the rules that change year to year—doesn't sound like the stuff that gets people worked up, but it does when ballots start getting rejected over something as simple as a birth year box filled wrong.
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Ty's Take The snowpack numbers sitting at 75 percent of median tells you everything you need to know about what's coming downstream this summer—and it's not much. We've seen dry years before, but record lows at multiple reporting sites up the