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Ty's Take Fire in Oso Canyon west of Española has the crews rolling again, and anyone who was here for Cerro Grande or watched the Las Conchas smoke roll across the plateau knows that feeling in your stomach when the alert goes out. The monsoon season is supposed
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Ty's Take Project Y Robotics hosting New Mexico's first FIRST competition this year says something about what this town does best: take kids with half an idea and the kind of problem-solving DNA that comes from growing up around engineers and physicists, then point them
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Ty's Take Measles is back on the plateau, and that's the kind of record nobody up here wanted to see. This is a town built on solving hard problems, on precision and evidence and getting the calculations right, which makes it worth asking out loud why
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Ty's Take A missing person case that had the community on alert wrapped up well, which matters more than most outsiders would understand in a town this size where everyone eventually crosses paths. Meanwhile, the real steady work keeps happening: medical center staff teaching kids CPR, incoming kindergarteners
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Ty's Take Shirley Ann Clayton, who spent more than eight decades on the Pajarito Plateau, passed away last month at 83, and her obituary reads like a small-town life well-lived: wife, mother, grandmother, involved in her church and community. That kind of steady presence, the kind
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Ty's Take There's a body found in the mountains, a kid earning scholarship money, somebody hiring folks for next fall, and the usual late-summer mix of community life playing out on the plateau—which is exactly how it should be when you're two
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Ty's Take What strikes you about a slow summer week in Los Alamos is how much of the real work gets done in the margins—a Shakespeare comedy on the lawn outside Hans Bethe's house, a suicide prevention course tucked into the library schedule, Leadership Los
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Ty's Take The Lab keeps beating the drum about career pathways for the next generation—good work, necessary work—but it's worth asking whether Los Alamos County is actually building the kind of place young people want to stay in once they're trained up.
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Ty's Take We lost a couple of good ones this week—David Gardner, who spent most of his life on the Hill, and Joe Myers down in White Rock—and that's the kind of news that reminds you this town, for all its laboratories and equations
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Ty's Take The bear cub advisory buried in today's briefing says something true about how we live up here now—the wildlife is pushed closer, we're building higher on the plateau, and every summer the line between our world and theirs gets thinner. Meanwhile
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Ty's Take The news out of LANL Foundation and the county health council this week points to something this town knows but doesn't always say out loud: we're good at the big problems—the physics, the engineering, the infrastructure—but the harder work happens
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Ty's Take You don't have to read far down today's wire before the contrast hits you—a detective in Bernalillo County just got convicted for tipping off drug targets to the DEA, while up here on the Hill the state's handing out