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Ty's Take The water trial wrapping up in Subdistrict 1 matters more than most courthouse proceedings, because around here the question of who gets what flows down the Rio Grande doesn't get settled by judges so much as it gets lived with, year after year, by
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Ty's Take The county commissioners are putting DA term limits on the ballot this fall, which tells you something about how this office has worn some people down over the years—and how fractured things have gotten between the board and whoever sits in that seat. Meanwhile, down
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Ty's Take The water trial wrapping up this week is the kind of story that doesn't make the evening news anywhere else, but here in the valley it's the story that matters most—because when the lawyers finally pack it in, somebody's
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Ty's Take Summer's hitting its stride in the valley when the farmers' market opens and folks start lining up for a 5K before dawn—556 people in Manassa proves there's still hunger for the kind of gathering that doesn't require a
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Ty's Take When a U.S. Senator shows up in the valley to talk potatoes and water instead of just talking at you, it's worth noticing—especially one who actually knows the difference between barley and malting barley. Hickenlooper's got his own history in
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Ty's Take Mid-summer in the Valley means the heat sits on you like a wool blanket you can't shake, and that's usually when folks stop waiting for the perfect weather and just get out there—the county fair circuit's spinning up,
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Ty's Take Word came down this week that a missing hiker made it out of the high country alive, which is how these stories usually end around here when folks know what they're doing—but it's also a reminder that the San Luis Valley
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Ty's Take The groundwater fight that's grinding through district court this week is the same argument that's been simmering in this valley since before most of us were born—who gets to drink, and who gets to watch their ditches run dry. You can
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Ty's Take That quote about consequences—somebody was talking about water, or they should've been. Out here you don't get to say much without the Rio Grande listening, and every word about "doing nothing" carries weight in a place where doing nothing
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Ty's Take Three years is a solid vote of confidence for anybody running a university, especially one that anchors a valley like ours. Tandberg's got his hand on the pulse of Adams State—the enrollment numbers, the regional reputation, the pipeline of kids from San Luis
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Ty's Take The water trial's back in session this week, and if you've been paying attention to the arguments about aquifer recovery and what constitutes a "reasonable time period," you already know this isn't some abstract legal matter—it'
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Ty's Take The valley's been wrestling with hard truths this week—a murder case closed with a guilty plea, the kind of outcome that settles nothing for the families left behind, and meanwhile our water engineers are still down in courtrooms trying to figure out how