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Ty's Take Every election season up here on the hill, you get a reminder that this place thinks different. We've got our Daughters of the American Revolution pinning medals on Navy veterans, early voting drives wrapped in revolutionary rhetoric, gallery tours of visual poetry, and a
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Ty's Take A 227-ton rotor rolling up the hill this weekend is exactly the kind of thing that makes Los Alamos what it is: the Lab gets what it needs, traffic backs up on Trinity Drive, and everybody figures it out because the work matters more than
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Ty's Take Lance Fresquez told the Kiwanis Club this week what most folks on the hill already know: fire season up here isn't something you prepare for once and then forget about. It's the kind of thing that shapes how a town thinks about
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Ty's Take Don Owen Coffin made it to 97, which around here means he saw this town transform from a wartime secret into something altogether stranger, a place where Nobel laureates shop at the same grocery store as their neighbors and everybody knows somebody working up the hill.
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Ty's Take You can't swing a cat on the Hill right now without hitting someone worried about housing, and for good reason. The Lab keeps growing, people keep coming, and what used to be affordable mountain living has turned into a squeeze. County Council candidates are
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Ty's Take You notice right away that this week's paper is full of people trying to figure out how things work around here, whether that's candidates asking hard questions about waste services or parents weighing in on what's happening in the schools.
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Ty's Take Takes a certain kind of town to fill a newspaper with Rotary awards, transit schedules, nature center programs, and candidate forums, then call it a week. Nothing wrong with that. These are the bones of how a place actually works, the small civic machinery that keeps
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Ty's Take When a town of engineers and scientists sits down to debate utility rates and what happens to the money collected, you know the conversation gets granular in a hurry. The letter in this week's paper from someone defending the rate increase, paired with the
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Ty's Take Housing keeps coming up at council meetings, and David Hampton's letter nails why it matters here more than most places. This county's tied to Lab growth in ways a lot of towns aren't, which means when the Lab expands, housing
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of quiet that settles over a town this size when the big news of the week is a proclamation about broadband access and a local dance school mounting The Nutcracker. You could read that as slow, and maybe it is,
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Ty's Take Jim Dyson spent nearly five decades around Los Alamos, which means he watched this plateau change more than most, saw the Lab grow and shrink and grow again, knew the names of people who've since moved down to Santa Fe or back east. The
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Ty's Take Betty Joan Essington spent ninety years in this life, from the Depression straight through to now, and that's a long time to watch a place change. The aquatic center keeps coming up at council meetings without getting resolved, which tells you something about how