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Ty's Take The weight of the past few days sits heavy on Billings this morning. A family turned upside down by unthinkable violence, a community gathering quietly to remember lives cut short, a man pulled from the Yellowstone, and now the machinery of justice grinding forward with charges
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Ty's Take The library's new defibrillator is the kind of thing that doesn't make headlines until the moment it matters, and then it's the only thing that matters. Meanwhile, out at the state park and down in Reed Point, people are getting
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Ty's Take The primary results are in, the forest service is coming to talk about winter use up in the high country, and down in La Sierra the fence question that's been chewing on neighbors for two years finally has some wildlife data to work with.
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Ty's Take Nobody likes talking about taxes, but the street tax question coming up in November is one of those things that gets harder to ignore the longer you wait. Potholes don't fix themselves, and the roads around Alamosa that funnel people to the university, to
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Ty's Take Dolly Parton's death hits different when you've got family roots running this deep into Ozark country. She wasn't just a country music legend who happened to have ties here, she was woven into the fabric of what this region means,
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Ty's Take The Copper Flat Mine hearing is back again, which tells you something about how these things wear on a community. Meanwhile, the city and county are trying to get ahead of sprawl with that new MOU on edge development, transit's shifting its routes to
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Ty's Take You can read a lot into a town by what it argues about, and Silver City's having a real one right now. We're fighting over intersection redesigns and landfill fees and whether a compost operation makes sense for our recycling future, which
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Ty's Take The hospital board posted solid numbers for July, which matters more than it sounds, because when HRRMC runs tight you can feel it all the way through the valley, from the waiting rooms to the payroll. Hard to attract and keep good people if the place
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Ty's Take Sunday service columns are a steady part of what runs in these papers, and they matter more than a lot of folks realize. When a pastor sits down to write about trustworthiness, he's writing about the thing that holds a county together, whether you&
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Ty's Take Housing's been the third rail around here for two years running, and the Daily Post's right to keep beating the drum on it. But there's a gap between identifying the problem and actually moving folks toward solutions, and that gap&
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Ty's Take There's a fire running 52 percent contained on 15,226 acres and traffic backing up near the tunnels, which means this week the plateau is reminding us again that we live in a place where things can turn serious fast. Meanwhile, the Forest Service
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Ty's Take There's something about a name change that gets people talking around here, and the city council's decision on the golf course is no different. You can rebrand a piece of property, sure, but what really matters is whether folks actually use it,