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Ty's Take The news from Helena about sex trafficking, the Title IX fight up in Kalispell, and Community Medical's move to remote pediatric ICU doctors all point to the same uncomfortable truth: institutions we depend on are cutting corners or, worse, failing to protect the people
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Ty's Take Drought's got a way of forcing choices nobody wants to make, and Alamosa just made one—no fireworks over the valley this July Fourth. It's the kind of decision that hits different in a place where water's always been the
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Ty's Take The Barela case is done now, and that's probably the right outcome, but it leaves a question that won't quit: how did we get to a place where a sitting official ends up fighting the state all the way to the Supreme
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Ty's Take A skydiving operation out of a Missouri airfield came down hard yesterday, killing all twelve people aboard—the kind of tragedy that stops a place cold, even one used to loss. We don't know yet what went wrong or where exactly it happened, but
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Ty's Take Monsoon season's knocking early this year, which ordinarily would be good news—except we're already talking water overconsumption before the dry months even hit. That's the tight spot Sierra County finds itself in again: praying for rain to fill Elephant
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Ty's Take Fireworks bans in Bayard, animal ordinances in Hurley, and now the town council learning that turkey vultures have taken a liking to Silver City—seems like Grant County is spending a lot of energy on the small stuff while our kids are heading to nationals in
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Ty's Take The Forest Service rolling out a new app to route hikers and hunters through the high country makes sense—Lord knows we need folks using trails smart, especially with how fire season keeps creeping earlier. But that same day's story about food insecurity in
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Ty's Take You notice pretty quick in a town this size that the hard conversations happen in church basements and community centers, not on Main Street over coffee—which maybe says something about who we are and what we need right now. This week alone you've
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Ty's Take Clare Villemez spent seventy-some years in this valley, which means he watched the Mesilla grow from something you could cross in an afternoon to what it is now—still recognizable if you know where to look, but fundamentally changed by time and people moving in.
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Ty's Take One car, one moment, one family torn apart on a Camden County road—and somewhere tonight, people who knew this Illinois woman are trying to make sense of why she was here and why she isn't anymore. These accidents don't come with
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Ty's Take Kyle Busch dying at 41 hits different when you're in a place like Deming where everybody knows somebody who works with their hands for a living. The man was a competitor—twice a Cup champion, relentless, the kind of driver who made enemies because
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Ty's Take An Abiquiú man walks out of a courtroom acquitted, a shoplifter runs from the law down roads most of us know by heart, and somewhere in those northern briefs is the small machinery of how things actually work up here—who got hired, who's