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Ty's Take Looks like everybody's holding their breath waiting for something to break—the kind of Monday where the valley's either between stories or too busy living them to call the paper. That's not uncommon this time of year, when the irrigation
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Ty's Take Outdoor lighting codes might sound like the kind of thing that puts people to sleep at town council meetings, but out here where the sky still means something—where you can actually see stars on a clear night and the Great Sand Dunes rise up dark
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Ty's Take Crys Matthews coming through Society Hall is the kind of show that reminds you why a college town matters, especially one like Alamosa that's spent decades punching above its weight culturally. The guy writes songs about what's breaking people—inequality, climate, justice—
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing about a week when the news runs light on crisis and heavy on community—a local apothecary worth your time, a theater production that lands right, a radio station counting on listeners to keep the lights on, and kids in
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Ty's Take The data center moratorium down in Saguache County is the kind of decision that ripples across the whole valley, whether folks realize it or not—when your neighbor starts saying no to certain kinds of growth, you're all thinking about what that means for
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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 means
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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