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Ty's Take Two newsrooms becoming one is the kind of consolidation story you see playing out across small-town Colorado, and it stings a little even when it makes sense on the balance sheet. The Valley Courier and the SLV Journal are merging into a regional publication, which
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Ty's Take Xcel's got the generators warming up and the shutoff protocols ready, which means someone's modeling another round of wind that could take the power down across the valley. Wildfire season's here too—that's the real message underneath both
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Ty's Take The Mariachi Spectacular coming up is exactly the kind of thing that keeps this valley tethered to something real while everything else spins faster every year. You can't fake that music—those tight harmonies and that particular ache in the trumpets—and you can&
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Ty's Take River otters are back in the San Luis Valley after being gone for decades, which tells you something about how much this country has healed since we poisoned half of it. Colorado Parks and Wildlife is asking folks to report sightings—and if you're
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Ty's Take Amellie Warner's been running ScSEED long enough to know that economic development in the San Luis Valley doesn't look like it does in Denver or Grand Junction—we're not chasing tech startups or throwing incentives at chain operations that'
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Ty's Take The El Niño question hanging over the valley right now isn't academic—it's about whether we see winter moisture or another dry year, and anybody who's been here long enough knows that water is the only conversation that matters when
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Ty's Take The Surface Transportation Board's decision to let the rail line go hits different when you've watched this valley depend on it for over a century—not just for moving potatoes and barley out, but for the kind of connection that keeps a
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Ty's Take Spring in the San Luis Valley moves at its own pace—sometimes slower than we'd like. This week the news reflects that rhythm: an outdoor report that reminds us the high country's still waking up, a tribute to an educator who shaped
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Ty's Take Water's always been the argument that matters most in this valley—older than statehood, older than the dams, older than most of us standing here—and it's good to see Adams State finally making conservation part of the conversation instead of an
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Ty's Take Anne Kelly's first real move as the new DA lands hard—charging a sitting sheriff and his deputies is the kind of thing that gets people talking in the grocery store for months. It's also the kind of thing that either defines