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Ty's Take The city's move to stand up an airport authority is the kind of structural housekeeping that doesn't make anybody's blood pump faster, but it matters more than the headline suggests. Billings-Logan is already the busiest airport between Denver and
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Ty's Take The push for a two-year moratorium on large data centers tells you something about where Yellowstone County sits right now—caught between the promise of new industry and the hard-won skepticism that comes from watching energy booms come and go. Data centers sound clean
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Ty's Take The closure notices keep coming for rural clinics across the region, and Seeley Swan Medical Center's mounting deficits are just the latest chapter in a story Billings knows too well—we're the fallback when smaller towns can't hold the line.
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Ty's Take Spring in Billings moves fast—one week the kids are sitting for senior pictures, the next week they're walking across the stage in their caps and gowns, and somewhere in between we lose neighbors who watched them grow up. That's what today&
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Ty's Take Memorial Day weekend brought the things it always does—a parade down the main drag with folks waving from the curb, a head-on collision that could've been worse, and the quiet loss of neighbors whose names fill the back pages every week. There&
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Ty's Take That data center north of town is going to remake how we think about Billings' future, and not in the way most of us expected. We've spent decades as an energy town—oil refining, coal, the backbone industries—and suddenly we're
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Ty's Take The Yellowstone Art Museum's funding fight isn't really about a building or even a budget line—it's about whether this region thinks cultural institutions matter enough to sustain them when money gets tight. Every county in the Northern Rockies faces
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Ty's Take That data center north of Billings is going to be the defining conversation around here for the next couple years, whether folks realize it yet or not. Two massive gas power plants to juice a facility that'll sit out there in Broadview—that'
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Ty's Take When the budget's this tight and the teachers still get raises, somebody's making hard choices about what matters most. The city council knows what every parent in Billings knows—you don't keep good schools by nickel-and-diming the people
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Ty's Take Sue Ray taught forty-five years at Chief Charlo and nobody had to wonder why—that's the kind of tenure you don't rack up unless you actually show up for kids, day in and day out, through all the changes a half-
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Ty's Take The rails that built this place are mostly history now, which tells you something about how fast a region can remake itself when the economics shift. We've gone from empire to adaptation—coal giving way to refining and healthcare, the old transportation networks replaced
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Ty's Take Every now and then a judge uses language plain enough that it cuts through all the noise, and that happened this week when the bench essentially told Mineral County that their sheriff and deputies didn't have a case worth pursuing. Those kinds of rulings—