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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
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Ty's Take Three-vehicle crash near Ozark with a child from Ava injured, a debate tonight between Durnell and Smith, and the usual spring shuffle of seed buying and job postings—nothing earth-shaking on the wire this Wednesday, which is how most of us prefer it. When the big
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Ty's Take The Boys & Girls Club feeding kids through the summer while parents work harvest and hay season—that's the kind of thing that doesn't make the weather forecast or the state news, but it's exactly what holds a county together
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Ty's Take Sixteen school districts hitting perfect marks on bus inspections is the kind of news that doesn't make anybody's blood race, but it ought to. You're talking about mechanics and drivers and fleet coordinators who've made safety routine enough
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Ty's Take The boil advisory lifting in Mountain View is the kind of quiet good news that doesn't make headlines but matters plenty to folks who've been boiling water for their coffee and their livestock—turns out the infrastructure stuff, the pipes and the
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Ty's Take A skydiving operation out of a Missouri airfield came down hard yesterday, killing all twelve people aboard—the kind of tragedy that stops a place cold, even one used to loss. We don't know yet what went wrong or where exactly it happened, but
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Ty's Take Seems like Friday had teeth this week—three serious wrecks scattered across the county, the kind that remind you how fast things can go wrong on these roads, especially when you're distracted or pressing your luck. Meanwhile, there's good news on the
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Ty's Take The library's dinosaur summer reading program and the city council's Monday night session on animal control and zoning might seem like separate stories, but they're really the same conversation—what does West Plains look like five, ten years from now?