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Ty's Take The San Luis Valley Community Foundation landed a significant grant from the Colorado Health Foundation this week, the kind of news that doesn't always grab attention but probably should. Money flowing into the valley for health-focused work means somebody in Denver still remembers
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Ty's Take Public land out here isn't some abstract talking point you argue about at dinner, it's the difference between a field trip where kids actually learn something and a locked gate. The La Jara Basin work that brought folks out this week matters
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Ty's Take That's a hefty subtitle for whatever story ran beneath it, and around here it lands different than it might anywhere else. The San Luis Valley's been holding all those threads together for longer than most of this country's been a
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Ty's Take There's something about watching a young artist find their voice in a place like this, and Brinklee Ruiz's work coming into focus at the same time the valley's marking 15 years of cultural pride says something worth noticing. The Sangre
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Ty's Take Thirteen arrests in a narcotics operation might sound like a big number until you realize how small a valley really is, and how far the tentacles of this stuff reach when you start pulling the thread. The Alamosa County Sheriff's Office and their partners
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Ty's Take Thin news day down in the valley, which around here usually means folks are out working instead of making headlines. Still, there's something worth paying attention to in that treasurer's warning about solicitation scams, because property owners around Alamosa have enough on
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Ty's Take Fall is the season when this valley shows its muscle, and you can see it in three different ways this week. Adams State's teams are in the thick of their schedules now, which means the college is pumping money and energy back into town
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Ty's Take The Republicans are hosting a Liberty Rally, which tells you something about where the conversation sits in Alamosa County right now. These events tend to draw the same crowd, energize the same people, and leave everyone else wondering if anybody's actually listening to anybody
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Ty's Take Fourteen measures on the Colorado ballot this fall means voters are going to need their reading glasses and maybe a stiff drink before they head to the booth. These things always pile up when the legislature can't or won't settle something, and
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Ty's Take Del Norte's five-year moratorium on Flock cameras is the kind of local decision that travels faster than the data those cameras collect. Word gets around in a valley this size, and when one town decides it doesn't want automated license plate
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Ty's Take The state Supreme Court's decision to pause livestreaming of court proceedings hits different when you're sitting in a county where water rights cases can take years and draw folks who drive hours to watch their valley's future get decided from
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Ty's Take There's something humbling about cracking open the Valley Courier from September 1876 and remembering that Alamosa wasn't always the college town we know now. Back then, people here were wrestling with the same things we wrestle with today: getting crops in before