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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
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Ty's Take Butte's wrestling with data centers while Helena's trying to fast-track affordable housing approvals, and meanwhile Billings is throwing its annual HarvestFest downtown. It's the kind of week that shows what separates a regional hub from the towns around it.
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Ty's Take There's a weight to the pages today that lands different. We're reading about a police chief hanging up his badge after years of walking these streets, about neighbors we've lost, about a child who shouldn't have been in
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Ty's Take Missoula's tax increment financing district just hit $22 million in annual revenue, which is the kind of number that gets everybody's attention around here, because Billings has been watching TIF work in other Montana towns for years and wrestling with whether it&
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Ty's Take Sunday's motorcycle hill climbs out at MetraPark drew a crowd that reminded you why this city keeps finding reasons to gather, even when the weather's turning and the season's shifting into that in-between stretch. There's something about
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Ty's Take The Laurel Fly-In brought warbirds back to the airstrip on Saturday, the kind of machines that don't fly much anymore except at shows like this one, which means folks who remember those years or grew up hearing stories about them made the drive
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Ty's Take Forty-three years at the same McDonald's in Helena is the kind of loyalty you don't see much anymore, and it says something about a person. That kind of tenure means you watched the place change around you, knew your regulars by
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Ty's Take You lose a neighbor and the paper prints their name, their years, who they leave behind. That's not filler, that's the town keeping score of itself. Today we're also reading about parents worried sick over a man with a gun
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Ty's Take A Missoula church got its radio tower approved on the second try, which is how things work when you've got patience and a decent lawyer. The story doesn't land on our doorstep here in Billings, but it's a reminder that
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Ty's Take Rocky came out of nowhere to knock off a ranked team Saturday, and you can feel that kind of win ripple through a college town for weeks. The volleyball team got their first conference victory too, which means the fall sports season is hitting its stride
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Ty's Take The city's decision to lower costs on streetlights is the kind of unglamorous work that doesn't make anybody's highlight reel, but it's exactly the kind of thing that keeps a place running when money gets tight. Billings has