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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, the
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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
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Ty's Take Primary results are in and already the machinery's grinding for 2026, which tells you something about how these county races work—the moment one election closes, everybody's eyeing the next one. Meanwhile the real fights aren't happening in the voting
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Ty's Take The Morphew trial waiting until 2027 feels like something this valley needs to finally put down—not forget, but lay to rest proper—and maybe that's the only way forward when a case has lived in the headlines longer than some kids have been
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Ty's Take The water trial starting this week is really about what it's always been about down here—who gets to live in the San Luis Valley and on what terms. These aren't abstract questions about interstate compacts and Rio Grande allocations; they'
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Ty's Take Kathy Woods stepping down from city council and the county commissioners weighing term limits for the DA on the same week—that's the valley's way of reminding us that institutional memory matters in a place this size. You can count on your