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Ty's Take When a week's news runs light on crisis and heavy on the sweet stuff—a new candy treat, a commander's promotion, pilgrims on the trail, a film coming home, and folks gathering to talk energy—you get a pretty clear picture of
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Ty's Take There's something about the way a small city honors its own that says more than any mission statement ever could. Today we're reading about smokejumpers getting their final jump from a vintage plane, neighbors we've lost, a young person from
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how this valley moves when somebody asks hard questions about where food actually comes from. The Pioneer's piece on local markets and food security isn't abstract—it's about whether a rancher's
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Ty's Take Fire season's here whether we're ready or not, and most of the valley's under restrictions now—which means anybody thinking about burning slash piles or clearing land needs to check before they strike a match, because one dry spark in
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Ty's Take The EPA coming to town to answer questions about the Superfund project is the kind of thing that gets people talking in this valley—and for good reason, since we've been living with the aftermath of that contamination longer than most folks want to
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Ty's Take Word came through this week that the Sacramento peaks are running clear and cold right now, which means two things in a place like this: somebody's going to have a damn good weekend up in the mountains, and somebody else is probably going to
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Ty's Take Three-vehicle crash near Ozark with a child from Ava injured, a debate tonight between Durnell and Smith, and the usual spring shuffle of seed buying and job postings—nothing earth-shaking on the wire this Wednesday, which is how most of us prefer it. When
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Ty's Take Sean Barnes blew the whistle, and now the town's getting a good long look at itself in the mirror—which is exactly what happens when somebody decides to speak up about how things work around here. The airport's got big plans, the
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Ty's Take The law enforcement stories piling up this week—a former police chief facing complaints in Hurley, a conviction for high-speed flight with a child in the car—remind us that the badge doesn't come with immunity from accountability, and it shouldn't.
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Ty's Take The news out of Washington on the Forest Service budget cuts hits different when you're sitting in a town that exists because of what grows on those mountains—timber, water, recreation, all of it tied to how the feds manage what's up
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Ty's Take The county's move to pump the brakes on data centers while the town wrestles with who sits at the council table tells you something about where Pagosa's head is these days—we're trying to figure out who we want to
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Ty's Take Slow Thursday in the valley, which means somebody's probably out checking irrigation lines or getting ready for the chile harvest while the rest of us are indoors squinting at screens. That's how it goes in June around here—the real news is