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Ty's Take Buena Vista finally drew a line on short-term rentals while we're still arguing about what a short-term rental even is, and that's the real story here. The housing crunch that's been grinding on both sides of the valley
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Ty's Take The school bond measure hitting the ballot this fall is going to split this town the way bonds always do, but this one's different because the stakes are actually here, not somewhere else. Eighty million dollars isn't abstract when you live in
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Ty's Take The Spark Speaker series is bringing in someone to talk senior citizens through emergency preparedness, which sounds like the kind of practical session that gets overlooked until the moment you're sitting in your house without power in January and wishing you'd paid
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Ty's Take Road maintenance turns out to be harder than it looks when nobody can quite agree whose road it is, which is exactly the kind of problem the Board of Commissioners is sorting through with CR 295 this week. Meanwhile, the real work of keeping a valley
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Ty's Take Nobody likes a road closure, but when commissioners move to shut down Country Center Drive access, there's usually something broken underneath that needs fixing before somebody else gets hurt. The 30-day notice tells you this isn't sudden, and that matters. What
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of quiet that settles over the valley in late August, when the summer work starts wrapping but fall hasn't quite landed yet. This week we're seeing that rhythm play out in the usual ways: the university
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Ty's Take You could parse all the council dust from the past week, the apologies and the pulled agendas and the short-term rental rules, but what it really amounts to is Salida growing too fast for the people running it to keep up. A fifty-thousand-dollar
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Ty's Take The school board's decision to ask voters for an eighty-million-dollar bond in November is going to focus this town's mind like nothing else on the ballot this fall. You can read the editorials starting to stack up in the Daily
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Ty's Take Primary day came and went quiet, the way these things do when most folks are out working or staying cool before the heat picks up. The unofficial numbers are in for Conejos County, and what strikes you is how few surprises landed, which maybe says something
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Ty's Take Budget season always feels like the moment when a town has to answer its own hardest questions, and Alamosa's got three of them stacked up right now. The city's calling a budget session just as Adams State is posting better numbers, which
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Ty's Take The Arkansas is doing what it does best right now, sorting itself out after last week's rain pushed debris downstream. Meanwhile, the city's sitting down to figure out what it actually costs to keep Salida running as people keep moving here, which
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Ty's Take There's an old saying that you can't prepare for everything, but you can sure prepare for the things that matter most, and this week the paper's running down the basics in ways that won't break the bank. Whether