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Ty's Take Lot of moving parts this week—the county's hammering out its comprehensive plan while the state's throwing money at opioids and disaster recovery, the Forest Service is running saws in the ranger district, and U.S. 160 is still a work in
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Ty's Take There's a federal trap door opening under Colorado, and it's worth understanding before someone in Washington pulls the lever. The feds are dangling wildfire funding in one hand while making demands about immigration enforcement and diversity programs in the other—the kind
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Ty's Take Highway 160 through town is about to get ugly for a while, which means the next few months are going to sort out who's patient and who isn't—and maybe tell us something about what we've become. Construction that tears
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Ty's Take Genealogy's having a moment everywhere, but it hits different in a place like Pagosa where half the families have roots going back five generations and the other half arrived last Tuesday looking for a second home. The Pagosa Peak Genealogical Society's May
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Ty's Take There's something about a Thursday in late April when the town starts moving again, and you see it all at once—the dance academy kids limbering up for their Broadway show, runners signing up for the Supermom 5K, folks actually showing up to free
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Ty's Take The small business conference heading down to Ignacio next Wednesday might be the most practical thing on this week's agenda—eight opinion pieces about government overreach won't pay the light bill, but a roomful of local owners swapping what's actually
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Ty's Take The fire readiness meetings and the power shutoff policy discussions—they're the same conversation wearing different hats. We've got agencies showing up to talk about what's coming this summer, and LPEA explaining why they might cut power to prevent ignitions,
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Ty's Take Nobody's paying attention to the unemployment number because it's good—4.2 percent is solid work in a seasonal economy that lives and dies on winter snow and summer visitors—but what matters is what comes next. The Gateway River Project limping
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Ty's Take Water's tight again, which shouldn't surprise anybody who's watched the drought creep in year after year, but the Pagosa Area Water and Sanitation District numbers are worth sitting with—especially if you're thinking about that new landscape project
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Ty's Take U.S. 160 is getting torn up again—dogleg near the old courthouse pushed back by weather, additional work zones west of town going to snarl things the week after next—and if you've got business in town or a commute that depends on