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Ty's Take The airport water line question keeps coming back around, doesn't it? Every few years somebody floats the idea of running infrastructure out to Spaceport America, and every few years the math doesn't work or the money isn't there or both.
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Ty's Take The copper mine debate keeps circling back to the same hard question, and today's hearing on power demands just made it sharper. You can't run an operation like Copper Flat without juice, and you can't pretend the grid out here
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Ty's Take Looks like we're making a push for some real money this year. Three million in capital outlay requests hitting our legislators, plus whatever the innovation zone grant might bring in, means somebody around city hall thinks 2025 is the moment to stop talking and
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Ty's Take Every few years somebody new buys the voting machines and everybody holds their breath, and this time it's Liberty Vote taking over from Dominion with some Republican connections in the mix. But here's the thing: the actual machines stay the same, which
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Ty's Take There's a particular rhythm to a week like this one in a county our size, where the serious stuff and the good stuff live right next to each other. We've got the school board working through hard conversations about student safety, the
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Ty's Take The Copper Flat Mine is back in the news, and this time it's got the hospital on its side. That's worth paying attention to. A mining operation in Sierra County isn't just about ore and economics, it's about
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Ty's Take Water and politics tend to move in the same channels around here, and this week we're seeing both at work. The county's extending tax deadlines for folks hit by flooding, which is the practical side of what happens when the Rio Grande
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Ty's Take Election season in a county this size always brings the same tension to the surface: people want to know the machinery works, and they want to know somebody's watching it work. Amy Whitehead's got the tough job of explaining it all while
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Ty's Take The airport water line question keeps coming up, and the answer's still no, but it's worth understanding why instead of just taking the dismissal at face value. Out here where every gallon counts and the Rio Grande keeps us all guessing, running
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Ty's Take The boil-water advisory came and went without the kind of panic that could've shut this town down, which says something about how we've learned to handle our vulnerabilities around here. But that calm shouldn't let us off the hook
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Ty's Take The high school volleyball team's got their eyes on next season already, which is the right kind of thinking when you're rebuilding. Over at the school, folks are planning ahead instead of dwelling on what didn't land this year, and
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Ty's Take The voting machine changeover is done, Dominion's out and Liberty Vote's in, and yes, the politics of it landed a little sideways around here. But here's the thing worth sitting with: the machines themselves haven't changed. What matters