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Ty's Take Election season landed in Chaffee County this week with the usual mix of policy talk and sharp elbows, though the real conversation happening quieter than the campaign rhetoric is the one about who lives here and how. A Supreme Court case about preschool nondiscrimination rules in
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Ty's Take School's starting up again, which means the rhythm around here shifts hard, the way it does every late August. Kids off the valley roads and into classrooms, parents reorganizing their whole summer schedule, and everyone watching the highways a little closer because the traffic
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Ty's Take The hospital board posted solid numbers for July, which matters more than it sounds, because when HRRMC runs tight you can feel it all the way through the valley, from the waiting rooms to the payroll. Hard to attract and keep good people if the place
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Ty's Take The Colorado River got some breathing room this week, which matters more to us than most people realize. Up here in the upper basin, every drop that stays in the system instead of getting diverted or depleted is money in the bank for agriculture, municipalities, and
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Ty's Take Guns showing up on F Street again is the kind of headline that stops you cold in a town like this, and not because we're naive about firearms around here. This valley's got ranchers, hunters, and plenty of people who know their
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Ty's Take The water situation keeps tightening around here, and now it's got Ben Oswald Park shut down until further notice. Losing a soccer field to drought is the kind of thing that sounds abstract until you're a kid who can't practice,
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Ty's Take The wildfire smoke that's been hanging over the valley for weeks is finally lifting, and that matters more than it sounds like it should. Air quality that bad wears on people in ways that don't show up in the official count, keeps
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Ty's Take The housing numbers the city council heard this week won't surprise anyone who's tried to rent or buy around here lately, but at least now we've got the data to back up what we already know: this valley can'
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Ty's Take The housing numbers hit different when you see them in black and white. A needs assessment saying nobody around here can actually afford to live in Chaffee County isn't exactly news to folks who've watched rents climb and young families bail for
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Ty's Take Building codes get boring fast until you're standing in front of one that might actually save your house. Buena Vista's move to tighten wildfire resiliency standards, paired with the county's push to finally nail down real numbers on our housing
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Ty's Take The geothermal project at Monarch Pass keeps hitting speed bumps, which shouldn't surprise anyone who's watched water politics play out in this valley for the last fifty years. Dave Held's been pushing this thing hard, and there's real
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Ty's Take The valley's been buzzing about federal pressure tied up with the Peters case, which lands different depending who you talk to and what you believe about leverage in these situations, but what matters now is moving forward, and that's exactly what the