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Ty's Take The Valley Courier's been running those photo features on local folks for a while now, and there's something worth noticing about what they do. You flip through faces 51 through 100 and you're looking at the actual backbone of this
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Ty's Take Rio Grande County's kicking off a comprehensive planning process, which around here means somebody finally decided to sit down and think past next season. In a valley where water rights disputes can swallow a decade and every acre of decent ground's been
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Ty's Take Airport expansion and a new PALS facility both moving forward at the same time means someone around here is thinking long term, which is refreshing to see. The hangars could bring more business traffic through, the kind that doesn't require state funding arguments or
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Ty's Take The college athletic calendar keeps rolling regardless of what else is happening around here, and that's as it should be. Adams State's teams give us something to watch and root for when the high valley weather turns mean and the daylight starts
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Ty's Take The state's move on Cielo Vista Ranch probably isn't a surprise to anyone who's been watching the water fights around here for the last decade, but ten thousand acres is a serious play. Colorado's looking at land and
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Ty's Take Halloween's coming up and the Valley Courier's got the seasonal spirit, which is fine enough for early October. But what strikes me is how we've built this whole American mythology around being scared of our own history. Haunted houses and
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Ty's Take Starting next month, any kid in Colorado with a learner's permit is going to face some tighter rules about when they can drive and who can ride along, and frankly, it's about time somebody took a hard look at how we'
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Ty's Take Most days the valley's news reads like a snapshot of who we are: somebody's making a case about water and growth, the Grizzlies are playing their hearts out on whatever field will have them, and somebody else is pulling off something creative
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Ty's Take Pat McDermott spent decades fighting over water in this valley, which means he spent decades fighting over everything that matters around here. The Rio Grande doesn't care much about state lines or old compacts or who farmed where first, but McDermott had to, and
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Ty's Take The school board's wrestling match with diesel prices is familiar enough, but there's something worth watching here beyond the quarterly budget headaches. Every time fuel costs spike, it puts pressure on routes that already stretch thin across a valley this size, and
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Ty's Take Bears don't usually make the news around here unless somebody's trash cans look like a buffet line, but five of them settling in town is worth taking seriously. Colorado Parks and Wildlife putting out that warning means they're not just
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Ty's Take The "Blue Jeans & Big Dreams" gala coming up Saturday night is one of those events that actually tells you something true about a place. In a valley where people still work the land and know the value of a dollar, a fundraiser that