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Ty's Take Property taxes are climbing again in Billings, and if you haven't looked at your assessment lately, you're about to get a reminder that living in Montana's largest city doesn't come cheap anymore. The conversation around those numbers matters
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Ty's Take Looks like everybody's holding their breath waiting for something to break—the kind of Monday where the valley's either between stories or too busy living them to call the paper. That's not uncommon this time of year, when the irrigation
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Ty's Take A man missing for years finally gets his name back this week, and you sit with that for a minute in a town where the desert keeps its secrets and the mountains don't give much up. DNA work that would've been pure
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Ty's Take Megan Grant hit her 37th home run of the season this week, tying the Division I record, and if you're wondering why that matters to a town like West Plains, it's because she grew up right here—Zizzers through and through, the
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how Hurley moves on those utility rate hikes—not because the numbers themselves are shocking, but because what happens in that town tends to ripple straight down into Silver City's own budget conversations. Meanwhile, our two kids
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Ty's Take Mother's Day falls different out here than it does in places where you can order flowers and have them waiting on a doorstep by noon. Up in Archuleta County, a lot of the women we're thinking about this Sunday are the ones
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Ty's Take The state finally got its head on straight and restored that ten million in tourism money, which matters more around here than most folks realize—it's not just about the boats and the weekend crowds, it's about the small businesses that depend
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Ty's Take Summer's coming to Deming the way it always does—with kids already counting days until the water park opens and parents already thinking about where to keep them occupied when school lets out. But this year we're also getting a harder look
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Ty's Take When a man who wore the badge pleads guilty, the whole valley feels it different than when somebody else does. There's a particular weight to it—the betrayal of a trust that doesn't get written back into the ledger easy, especially up
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Ty's Take When a hospital team has to improvise to save two lives at once—a mother and her newborn both fighting in the ICU—you get a reminder of what keeps this city running underneath all the talk about energy markets and downtown development. Montana Tech'
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Ty's Take Outdoor lighting codes might sound like the kind of thing that puts people to sleep at town council meetings, but out here where the sky still means something—where you can actually see stars on a clear night and the Great Sand Dunes rise up dark
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in those numbers coming to White Sands Regional Airport—a hundred and ten grand in infrastructure money that says somebody in the state capital thinks this place is worth betting on for the next chapter. Meanwhile, up in Cloudcroft and