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Ty's Take County commissioners did what they had to do this week, holding the line on the tax rate while everybody knows the bills don't stop coming. Nobody goes into public service to be popular, and keeping the books balanced in a county this size means
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Ty's Take A West Plains man's arrest this week on invasion of privacy charges serves as a hard reminder that the places we move through every day, the businesses we shop in and work at, aren't always as safe as we assume. Recording women
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Ty's Take There's something about a slow morning that makes you notice what's actually working around here. City Council tightening up its own rules, a new superintendent settling in to build on what his district's already done right, a local author getting
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Ty's Take There's something about a Hardee's reopening that tells you more than it first seems, especially in a county seat of two thousand where a working lunch or quick dinner still matters to folks coming off a timber job or heading back out
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Ty's Take Dolly Parton's death hits different when you've got family roots running this deep into Ozark country. She wasn't just a country music legend who happened to have ties here, she was woven into the fabric of what this region means,
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Ty's Take Sunday service columns are a steady part of what runs in these papers, and they matter more than a lot of folks realize. When a pastor sits down to write about trustworthiness, he's writing about the thing that holds a county together, whether you&
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Ty's Take There's something about a name change that gets people talking around here, and the city council's decision on the golf course is no different. You can rebrand a piece of property, sure, but what really matters is whether folks actually use it,
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Ty's Take Football season around here is the closest thing we have to a statewide holiday, and the Tigers are sharpening up after what sounds like a solid offseason under the lights. You can't walk through Houston without hearing talk about who's back, who&
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time for a community to hold its breath, and these charges against three men in connection with the Sanders death finally put names on what people around here have whispered about since 2018. The Shannon County Sheriff's Office has
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Ty's Take There's a stretch of bad luck running through the county this week, the kind that reminds you how quick things can turn. A four-car wreck south of town put four people in the hospital, somebody's facing charges over mushrooms (and you
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Ty's Take S&T's Coterie has been doing the same thing every fall for longer than most of us can remember, and that consistency matters more than people think. For those who haven't crossed paths with the group, it's one of
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Ty's Take Road work in August heat is no joke, and a MoDOT crew member learning that the hard way out here in Laclede County is a reminder that the folks keeping I-44 and Route 66 passable year-round don't get much margin for error