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Ty's Take Montana's kept same-day voter registration, which means come November folks in Carbon County can still walk in and register at the polls if they haven't done it yet—no advance paperwork required. There's something to be said for that kind
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Ty's Take The wildfire code taking effect next month is the kind of thing that sounds like bureaucratic overhead until you're watching embers blow across your roof—and by then it's too late. Pagosa's been lucky compared to some of what we&
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Ty's Take You don't need headlines to tell you what time of year it is around the lake—the water's warming up, the docks are getting crowded, and we're about to lose somebody we didn't have to. Three drownings in
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Ty's Take A wrong-way driver on I-10 killed someone this week, and now faces a homicide charge—the kind of tragedy that hits different out here, where that interstate is the spine of everything we do, where families cross it to work, where goods move through it day
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Ty's Take You don't have to live up here long to understand how national politics lands different when you're six thousand feet up and forty miles from the nearest interstate. Duke Rodriguez getting a cease-and-desist from Trump's lawyers over some campaign material
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Ty's Take When the budget's this tight and the teachers still get raises, somebody's making hard choices about what matters most. The city council knows what every parent in Billings knows—you don't keep good schools by nickel-and-diming the people in the
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Ty's Take Slow week on the blotter—nothing that'll keep anybody up at night—which gives us room to notice what's actually holding this county together. There's a woman out in Joliet doing the unglamorous work of matching people with what they
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Ty's Take Steve Pearce's confirmation at the Bureau of Land Management is the kind of appointment that splits this town right down the middle—good news for the oil and gas folks who've been waiting on permitting, rougher news for the water-rights crowd already
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Ty's Take Marideth Sisco spent decades telling the stories of these hills—first as a reporter chasing the news, then as a voice on the radio bringing Ozark voices into living rooms across the region. She died this week at 82, and with her goes a particular kind
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Ty's Take A jury convicted Espirideon Varela this week while a cyclist ended up under a police car and the county held another meeting about fire—which tells you everything about Grant County right now. We're a place where the courts work, where accidents happen at
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Ty's Take The wolves are back in the San Juans, and the state's latest count confirms what most of us already know from the scat and the tracks and the occasional early-morning sighting—they're establishing themselves in our backcountry like they never left. That&
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Ty's Take When the power goes out across three counties and two separate accidents land people in the hospital on the same Monday morning, it's worth asking whether we're paying attention to the basics—road conditions after a storm, visibility, speed on wet pavement,