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Ty's Take School budgets don't make headlines unless they have to, and West Plains' board meeting this week hit that moment—enrollment's sliding, revenue's tightening, and there's no magic money waiting at the end of the fiscal year. It&
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Ty's Take Holiday weekends always shake loose the things a town needs to handle—sanitation route changes, water-level watches down in Mountain View, the city reminders that keep things running—but what catches you this week is that Dairy Queen putting in a 60-foot Ferris wheel
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Ty's Take The Fourth falls on a Wednesday this year, which means City Hall's locked up and the real celebrating happens when the work week ends—Skyfire on Friday night, the SAR/DAR fireworks coming Monday, and somewhere in between a whole lot of folks taking
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Ty's Take Drug sweeps across three counties in one week, vehicle wrecks sending kids to the hospital in Springfield, and the usual run of summer trouble—this is the stretch we hit every July, when heat and idle time seem to pull at people the wrong way. The
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Ty's Take Marshall Ray Miller, Logan Dwain-Day Tarleton, William "Bill" Flood, Delberta Williams, Kieth Reese—five names in the obits this week, which is how you measure a stretch of time out here, the folks who knew the roads and the seasons and which neighbor
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Ty's Take Logan Day-Tarlton's motorcycle crash this week is the kind of loss that ripples through a county this size—the kind that makes you think about every rider you know heading out on the highway, and whether we've stopped saying the things
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Ty's Take When a sheriff gets a letter asking for money to investigate a case, it's worth asking hard questions about how we fund law enforcement in county seats like ours—and whether the people running those operations are doing right by the badge they wear.
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Ty's Take Jack Pahlmann spent his years as West Plains mayor figuring out how to move the needle on a small-town budget, which is mostly about knowing who needs help, when, and how to ask without bruising anybody's pride—the kind of work that doesn&
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Ty's Take Two of our neighbors made the trip to Indianapolis and came home with some hardware from the National Beta Club competition—the kind of thing that doesn't make the national news but means everything in a house where somebody's kid stayed up
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Ty's Take Most days the news that lands on the desk gets sorted pretty quick—what matters here, what doesn't. But this morning you've got Chicago violence running against a water main break in Mountain View, college sports legislation against a motorcycle wreck near
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Ty's Take City council work doesn't grab headlines the way it should—updating animal control codes and property ordinances sounds dry until you're the one trying to figure out what you can and can't do with your own land, or dealing with
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Ty's Take A judge's ruling on abortion law in Missouri lands hard in a state that's been wound tight on the issue for years, but down here in Howell County the real news might be quieter and closer to home—Baxter Health earning back