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Ty's Take There's a federal trap door opening under Colorado, and it's worth understanding before someone in Washington pulls the lever. The feds are dangling wildfire funding in one hand while making demands about immigration enforcement and diversity programs in the other—the kind
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Ty's Take You don't have to spend much time around the lake these days to see the tension playing out—development money knocking on the door hard, locals trying to figure out what they're actually saying yes to. Camdenton's decision to pump
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Ty's Take School levies don't fail in a vacuum, and voters in Billings just sent a message that's hard to miss—they're tired, stretched thin, or both. Two mill levies went down on the same ballot where board incumbents sailed through, which
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Ty's Take When Supaman rolled through town this week sharing music and culture, and the Lions Club marked a hundred years of showing up for neighbors, it reminded you what these gatherings are really about—they're the connective tissue that keeps a place like Big Timber
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Ty's Take Xcel's got the generators warming up and the shutoff protocols ready, which means someone's modeling another round of wind that could take the power down across the valley. Wildfire season's here too—that's the real message underneath both
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Ty's Take The calendar flipped to an election year and suddenly everybody's got something to say about how the region should run itself, which is fine—that's how it's supposed to work. But there's a sharper question buried underneath the
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Ty's Take Hannah Harper making it to the American Idol finale is the kind of thing that reminds you why small towns matter—somebody's kid from around here gets on that national stage, and the whole region leans in to watch. You don't have
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Ty's Take When a sheriff's department finds itself defending against a false arrest lawsuit, the whole county feels it—not just in legal fees, but in the kind of trust that takes years to rebuild and a week to lose. We've got enough real
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Ty's Take Fourteen percent of folks signing up for ACA coverage in Carbon County are looking at January premiums they're genuinely worried about affording, which is another way of saying the math still doesn't work for a slice of this community no matter how
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Ty's Take Highway 160 through town is about to get ugly for a while, which means the next few months are going to sort out who's patient and who isn't—and maybe tell us something about what we've become. Construction that tears
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Ty's Take Somebody's having a rough spring out here. Between the boat fire that sent two men to the hospital, the string of vehicle accidents piling up across the county, and now a woman seriously hurt pushing a truck uphill—it feels like we're
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Ty's Take Every August when the heat's sitting on Deming like a cast-iron skillet, somebody around here remembers that kids don't stop needing pencils and paper just because their families are stretched thin. Stuff The Bus has become one of those quiet traditions that