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Ty's Take There's something about the high altitude up here that sorts people quick. Your lungs know it the first time you step off the plane, and if you've got any sense, you figure out fast whether you're staying or heading back
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Ty's Take The week's good news runs straight through the heart of what makes this valley work: somebody's doing the job right, somebody's remembering the history that got us here, somebody's ready when things go sideways. The heat wave that
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Ty's Take The county commissioners are putting term limits on the DA ballot this fall, which means come November, voters here get to weigh in on how long one person should hold that office. It's the kind of local governance question that doesn't make
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Ty's Take The farmers market coming back to town this week is about more than tomatoes and squash, though Lord knows we need both after this dry stretch. It's the first real signal that summer's actually here in the valley, the one weekend morning
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Ty's Take The mural going up downtown isn't just paint on a wall, which anybody who's spent five minutes in the San Luis Valley knows matters plenty around here. Water's been the argument and the lifeline both, the thing we fight over
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Ty's Take When a U.S. Senator shows up in farm country, folks tend to keep their expectations measured, but Hickenlooper walking into conversations with actual growers instead of just making speeches says something about how tight things have gotten out here. Water fights never really end in
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Ty's Take The La Sierra fence study finally landed on the table, and anybody who's watched this valley for five minutes knows what that means: another round of hard talk between landowners and the folks worried about wildlife corridors. These aren't abstract arguments up
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Ty's Take The water trial wrapping up in Subdistrict 1 matters more than most courthouse proceedings, because around here the question of who gets what flows down the Rio Grande doesn't get settled by judges so much as it gets lived with, year after year, by
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Ty's Take The county commissioners are putting DA term limits on the ballot this fall, which tells you something about how this office has worn some people down over the years—and how fractured things have gotten between the board and whoever sits in that seat. Meanwhile, down
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Ty's Take The water trial wrapping up this week is the kind of story that doesn't make the evening news anywhere else, but here in the valley it's the story that matters most—because when the lawyers finally pack it in, somebody's
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Ty's Take Summer's hitting its stride in the valley when the farmers' market opens and folks start lining up for a 5K before dawn—556 people in Manassa proves there's still hunger for the kind of gathering that doesn't require a
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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