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Ty's Take Death notices in a small city read like a map of who held things together—teachers, nurses, shop owners, the kind of people you'd see at MetraPark or standing in line at the courthouse. The Heart & Sole run on Father's Day
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Ty's Take There's something about the way a small city honors its own that says more than any mission statement ever could. Today we're reading about smokejumpers getting their final jump from a vintage plane, neighbors we've lost, a young person from
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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 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
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Ty's Take Kevin Iffland's staying put as interim city administrator for now, which tells you something about how Billings operates when the real work needs doing—no rush to fill every chair, no political theater around the hiring process. This is a city that knows its
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Ty's Take The news from Helena about sex trafficking, the Title IX fight up in Kalispell, and Community Medical's move to remote pediatric ICU doctors all point to the same uncomfortable truth: institutions we depend on are cutting corners or, worse, failing to protect the people
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Ty's Take There's something about a horse ranch opening on the edge of town that reminds you why people stick around Billings, especially when it's built on the idea that animals can help heal what ails us. Horse Spirits Healing at Creekside Ranch isn&
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Ty's Take Slow Friday in the valley, which means the real work's happening where it usually does—in the clinics and at the markets and in the neighborhoods where people are just getting on with it. Billings Clinic's tenth cohort of internal medicine residents
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Ty's Take When a barn burns in Lockwood and good people pass in Billings, when a man faces murder charges and the city discovers it's been breaking its own rules, you get the kind of week that reminds you why local government and local journalism matter—
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Ty's Take Mining built Montana and mining's still what keeps the lights on here in Billings, which is why that deep dive into the Treasure State's mineral heritage matters more than a history lesson—it's a reminder of who we are and
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in the way this region keeps finding uses for what it's got. That data center project out near Sidney—burning off natural gas that would otherwise flare into the sky—isn't flashy, but it's
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Ty's Take The library's new makerspace opening this week is the kind of quiet investment that reshapes a town over time—not the ribbon-cutting kind of news, but the kind that matters when a kid walks in after school and discovers she can build something,