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Ty's Take When a former Griz and NFL guy takes the head coaching job at Big Sky High, you're getting more than a resume. You're getting somebody who's lived the path these kids are dreaming about, who knows what it takes to
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of slow news day that tells you more about a place than the headline stories ever could. You get the obits and the pool photos and the Shop With a Cop event, and what you're really reading is
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Ty's Take The small gestures matter most on days like this one. NorthWestern Energy's ten grand to Toby's House, a community that just lost neighbors we didn't know we'd miss until we read their names in the paper, a house
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Ty's Take There are days when a newspaper runs the obits and the sports scores and feels like it's just going through the motions, and then there are days like this, when those same routines sit alongside the hardest stories a community has to tell. Sunday&
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Ty's Take This town has had a hard week, and the candlelight vigil at Veterans Park shows what we do when the weight gets too heavy to carry alone. A psychiatrist's advice on coping has its place, sure, but there's something that matters more
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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 A shooter killed eight people in Billings on Sunday, then set a fire that brought our firefighters running into a home where hydrants had run dry. That's the kind of detail that matters in a moment like this, when you're trying to
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Ty's Take When a Sunday night on the West End ends with multiple dead in a shooting and fire, the whole city feels it the next morning, whether the news made your phone buzz or you heard it from somebody at work. That's the kind of
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Ty's Take When a house fire and a shooting happen on the same stretch of street in west Billings, and the airshow crowds are still settling back into their routines downtown, you get a reminder that this city runs on two speeds at once. MetraPark fills with families
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how our kids are finding their way to help when they need it most. The mental health struggles among Montana teens aren't new, and neither is the shortage of counselors and crisis lines that can actually pick
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Ty's Take Late August in Billings always feels like the moment between things, that stretch when school supplies are flying off shelves, when parents hunt down shot records and the immunization clinics fill up, when a new university president stands up and talks about vision and work ahead.
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Ty's Take A hundred-and-one-million-dollar gift to Montana State University's nursing program doesn't just move buildings around on a campus two hours north. It says something about what Billings is, or what it's becoming. We're the medical