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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration came down the wire today, and if you've been outside in Luna County the last few weeks you already knew it. The heat's been sitting on us like a blanket, the monsoon's running late,
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Ty's Take That data center north of Billings is going to be the defining conversation around here for the next couple years, whether folks realize it yet or not. Two massive gas power plants to juice a facility that'll sit out there in Broadview—that'
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Ty's Take High-altitude valleys don't get many second acts, but this week Alamosa's getting a couple worth watching. The rocket event brings eyes and dollars to a town that's always scrappy about economic development, and there's something fitting about
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Ty's Take Holloman's been good to this town—that's the through-line you hear whether it's at the VFW or the Chamber office or watching the flags come down on Memorial Day. An Air Force base that actually works with its civilian
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Ty's Take Marideth Sisco spent more than four decades writing the stories of this county—the weddings and wrecks, the school board fights, the way people held on through hard times—and if you spent any real time reading the Quill, you knew her voice. She had that
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Ty's Take Looks like we're getting the kind of week where the hard truths land alongside the hopeful ones. A new county auditor who isn't afraid to call out what's broken in Truth or Consequences, kids making bad choices in the dark
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Ty's Take Dry country knows how to read the signs, and right now they're all pointing the same direction. The National Weather Service is already talking 2026 monsoon season like it's something we need to plan for today, Santa Clara's got fire
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Ty's Take Montana's kept same-day voter registration, which means come November folks in Carbon County can still walk in and register at the polls if they haven't done it yet—no advance paperwork required. There's something to be said for that
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Ty's Take The wildfire code taking effect next month is the kind of thing that sounds like bureaucratic overhead until you're watching embers blow across your roof—and by then it's too late. Pagosa's been lucky compared to some of what we&
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Ty's Take You don't need headlines to tell you what time of year it is around the lake—the water's warming up, the docks are getting crowded, and we're about to lose somebody we didn't have to. Three drownings in
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Ty's Take A wrong-way driver on I-10 killed someone this week, and now faces a homicide charge—the kind of tragedy that hits different out here, where that interstate is the spine of everything we do, where families cross it to work, where goods move through
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Ty's Take You don't have to live up here long to understand how national politics lands different when you're six thousand feet up and forty miles from the nearest interstate. Duke Rodriguez getting a cease-and-desist from Trump's lawyers over some