Billings Daily Digest Saturday, June 27, 2026
Ty's Take
Randy Hafer's electric bills run about thirty bucks a month, which tells you something worth knowing about how this region's going to have to think about energy in the years ahead—not as an either-or fight between the old economy and the new one, but as a practical question a working architect from Billings already answered for himself. The Little Bighorn anniversary drawing thousands this week also reminds us that history doesn't settle; it sits here on our eastern border asking us to keep paying attention. But in between those two stories—one man building his future differently, 150 years of a nation reckoning with its past—maybe there's something about this place worth holding onto: the willingness to actually live here, actually change, and actually remember.
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