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Ty's Take County's been moving slow on that Justice Center study for a while now, and today's the day they're finally narrowing down which firms get a real look at what we actually need. Meanwhile, two more folks got sentenced during Circuit
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Ty's Take The primary's still fresh in the rearview, but what caught our eye wasn't the horse race results so much as all those voters picking the nonpartisan ballot line. That's worth watching around here. In a county where politics and family
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Ty's Take When everything from the VA clinic to MSU to the hospital is working to make things easier on people, you notice something worth mentioning. West Plains has never been the kind of town that waits around for somebody else to fix what's broken, and
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Ty's Take Election day in Missouri falls on a Tuesday like any other, which means most folks around here will vote between their morning coffee and lunch, or maybe swing by after work. The primary races have drawn their share of attention this cycle, though in a county
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Ty's Take Thin week on the wires, which tells you something about January in Howell County. The blood bank's running short, the state's pushing folks to pay attention to what Washington's doing with social services, and the Department of Conservation's
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Ty's Take Money from somewhere else is flooding into the 154th District race, and if you've been watching the mailbox or your screen, you already know it. Outside groups are dropping real dollars on attack ads while locals are trying to figure out who's
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Ty's Take Roads keep our region stitched together, and when Route VV goes down for pavement work, folks around Howell County adjust like they always do. Same week you've got Mountain View taking delivery of a new skid steer for their own maintenance needs, which tells
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Ty's Take Four funerals this week, and the back to school shot clinic running Fridays down at the health department. That's the rhythm of August in Howell County, the way summer starts letting go and you remember that the calendar doesn't care much about
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Ty's Take Primary day is coming up fast, and voters are going to have their hands full sorting through candidates and those ballot measures everybody's been talking about. The Shield Maidens are asking hard questions about what some of those initiatives actually do, and meanwhile there&
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Ty's Take The power cooperative's peak alert came right as the heat settled in hard, which means West Plains and the county are looking at some tight margins on the grid over the next stretch. It's the kind of thing that doesn't
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Ty's Take Saturday turned into one of those days that reminds you why the river demands respect, and why heat this thick can scramble your judgment in ways you don't see coming until it's too late. We had a man from St. Charles drown
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Ty's Take Street work on a Tuesday morning in West Plains means timing, and the city's got that notice out there for folks who need to plan around it. But what caught my eye in this week's roundup was Ozarks Healthcare landing that regional