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Ty's Take You don't have to look far around Howell County to see what college athletics has become—a money game where tennis rackets get shelved so somebody else can chase a scholarship check. Missouri State-West Plains sits in a town that understands hard choices, where
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Ty's Take Two things worth noting on a Thursday evening in Howell County: the sheriff's office collected enough prescription bottles and old medications at last week's drug take-back to keep some real trouble off the streets, and Children's Behavioral Services just raised
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Ty's Take Independence Drive's new overpass finally opened this week after decades of talk and planning, which is the kind of infrastructure win that doesn't make headlines in Kansas City but matters plenty in a county seat trying to move cattle, hay, and people
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Ty's Take The sheriff's office is hiring, the overpass work is winding down, and somewhere in Jefferson City they're still tinkering with how high school sports appeals get handled—the kind of day-to-day machinery that keeps a county running whether anybody's paying
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers in a murder case, but Shannon County folks know by now that justice in this county moves on its own schedule—and sometimes not without a cost to the people wearing the badge. Three arrests in
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Ty's Take You can read a lot about a community in what it chooses to build and how it pays for it. West Plains is pushing forward on a sports complex with a one-cent sales tax, the justice center's going to need new revenue too, and