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Ty's Take The governor's been out selling Montana coal to Korea while data center companies line up asking the state to referee their power fights, which tells you everything you need to know about where we are right now. Energy's still the backbone out
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Ty's Take Two folks walked away from a plane down in South Fork this week with nothing worse than scrapes—the kind of luck that doesn't come around often enough in small mountain valleys where weather turns on a dime and help is always twenty minutes
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Ty's Take The city's rolling out AI software for the police department while launching a mental health initiative aimed at young people—which tells you something about where we're at right now, doesn't it? We're trying to catch problems faster
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Ty's Take The GPS jamming that brought down that medical plane near Capitan is the kind of thing that lands differently out here than it does in a congressional hearing room—four people dead, a wildfire sparked, and a hard reminder that the tests and operations happening across
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Ty's Take The Boys & Girls Club feeding kids through the summer while parents work harvest and hay season—that's the kind of thing that doesn't make the weather forecast or the state news, but it's exactly what holds a county together
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Ty's Take Truth or Consequences has been dancing around its housing shortage for years, watching younger families and workers get priced out or driven toward bigger towns where a paycheck goes further. The city commission's move toward tiny homes won't solve everything—it never
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Ty's Take Wind's been the story out here for three days running, and it's hammering us from both ends—literally trying to blow us off the map while it's pushing that Bear Fire toward some better containment numbers. That's the
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Ty's Take The town's looking at picking up the old Wyndham properties, which sounds like a straightforward real estate move until you sit with it a minute—this is what happens when a resort town finally admits it can't leave everything to the private
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Ty's Take A seven-year-old from Stover is gone, killed in a utility vehicle accident that'll sit heavy in this county for a long time—the kind of loss that makes you look at your own kids different, makes you think twice about what we let slide
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Ty's Take Milton Johnson's been weaving straw hats in Santa Fe for longer than most of us have been alive, and the fact that one of his creations goes for twenty-five grand tells you something about what happens when a man refuses to cut corners or
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Ty's Take The water district's 24 percent rate increase won't sit easy with anybody living in the Heights, and that's the kind of number that deserves a hard look before it gets rubber-stamped. Folks out there already pay attention to their bills—
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Ty's Take The festival's back, Metcalf's getting recognition, and the branding crews are still moving cattle the way their fathers and grandfathers did—which says something about what holds in this country when everything else is shifting. You can read a lot into a