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Ty's Take The rain question hanging over Los Alamos right now isn't really about whether it's still falling, though clearly folks around here are watching the sky like they always do come monsoon season. It's about what happens next when the storms
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Ty's Take Flash flood warnings tend to catch people's attention around here, and with good reason. The state emergency operations center is running drills while the National Weather Service watches monsoon patterns, and NMDOT is asking drivers to take this seriously, which they usually do once
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Ty's Take The schools are climbing. Four-year highs in academic growth, leading the state, which is the kind of news that tends to get drowned out by everything else happening on the hill, but it matters more than most of what we talk about. Los Alamos has
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Ty's Take Most weeks you can read these pages and find the machinery of a small town ticking along, and this week's no different. A couple getting married, three folks stepping up to talk about what they'd do on the county council, and a
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Ty's Take Slow week on the hill, which means what's actually moving is the small stuff that shapes how a town lives. You've got people arguing about breakfast sugar at the elementary school while the Lab's brightest are getting Fellows' Prizes,
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Ty's Take September's hitting the ground running up here, and there's something worth noticing in the mix of what's happening on the hill. We've got ScienceFest kicking off, the literary festival coming in October, PEEC getting kids back out into
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Ty's Take We lost a couple of good ones this week. Jerry Halladay, seventy-six, and Patricia Tubb, ninety, both spent their lives here on the plateau when it was smaller and quieter than it is now. They saw the Lab grow, saw the town grow around it,
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Ty's Take Eight more researchers making Fellow status at the Lab is the kind of news that barely moves the needle around here, and maybe that's exactly the problem. On the Pajarito Plateau, brilliance is the baseline. We've got physicists buying groceries at Smith&
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Ty's Take Scholarship season is here again, which tells you something about Los Alamos that outsiders don't always get. In a town built on brains and built around the Lab, we've got foundations and nonprofits and civic groups that take it personally when young
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Ty's Take Michael Devereux spent fifty years on the plateau, and when you've got someone who roots that deep in a place like this, his passing leaves a real hole. The County Council keeps meeting, the writers keep gathering (James McGrath Morris talking Hillerman this month)
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Ty's Take Fire talk at the Kiwanis Club this week hit different when Fire Chief Erik Litzenberg took the podium, because around here fire isn't abstract. We remember 2000 and 2011 like they happened yesterday, and every September when the monsoons dry out and the winds
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Ty's Take When a town built on equations and physics wants to throw a party, it tends to do it with the kind of precision you'd expect. Seven finalists for the Green Chile Cheeseburger Smackdown, an airport open house, a memorial hike up Pajarito Mountain, a