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Ty's Take The data center deal moving forward in Yellowstone County signals something bigger than just another industrial project. These operations require serious infrastructure, steady power, and room to grow, and the fact that developers see that future here says the county commission is doing something right on
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of energy that comes through town when a presidential candidate rolls through, and today that meant the usual circus of security, crowd logistics, and folks lined up to see history happen one way or another. But what strikes you covering
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Ty's Take School districts all over Montana keep circling back to the four-day week, and East Helena's latest push to gather community feedback on the idea tells you something about where we are right now. It's not some fringe experiment anymore, it'
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Ty's Take A house fire out at Copper Ridge, a pipeline purge down in Great Falls, another week of obits marking who we've lost, and a police department honoring a kid who stepped up when it mattered. That's the rhythm of a working town
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Ty's Take Rocky Mountain College's athletic teams showed up to play this week, and that's the kind of thing that matters more than the scoreboard sometimes. The men's soccer squad got past College of Idaho by a goal, the women's
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Ty's Take Seven school zones getting traffic safety work is the kind of unglamorous infrastructure news that doesn't make anyone's heart race, but it's exactly what a growing city like this needs to keep saying yes to. Kids walking to Roosevelt or
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Ty's Take Wilmot Collins came up through war and politics in places most of us will never see, and now he's taking that story on the road through Montana. A former mayor of Helena who fled civil conflict in Africa before making his way here and
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Ty's Take The jobs board is filling up again, which is what you want to see heading into the back half of October, and down in Helena they're breaking ground on a new elementary school while figuring out how to get better food into the cafeteria.
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Ty's Take The Stillwater Mine agreement ending a month of strikes is the kind of news that matters to working people across the whole region, but the real story might be sitting right there in the driveway approvals the council just passed. Wider, larger driveways after Missoula builders
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Ty's Take When the University of Montana Western comes to town for football this weekend, they're walking into a Rocky squad that's figured out how to win the games that matter. Three straight victories to open the season, including that upset over Southern Oregon
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Ty's Take Chameleon Stained Glass has been turning light into art on Grand Avenue for 35 years, which in a town like this means it's watched the whole stretch change around it, watched storefronts come and go, watched what matters to people shift. That kind of
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Ty's Take When the Rimrocks need cleaning up, it takes rope work and grit, and that's exactly what our firefighters gave the rocks this week rappelling down to cover graffiti that shouldn't have been there in the first place. Same week we lost some