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Ty's Take Montana's high-tech sector crossed $7.9 billion last year, and that number would've sounded like pure fiction to anyone working here twenty years ago. The shift has been quieter than a boom, which is maybe why it hasn't grabbed
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Ty's Take The school funding push in Helena is about to get serious, and those two hundred million dollars represents something this region's been chasing for years: enough breathing room to actually plan ahead instead of patch holes. Out here, we've watched good teachers
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Ty's Take You don't get many days around here when the news lands so hard on both sides at once. We've got a man in federal custody for preying on vulnerable women at a shelter, another locked up six years for firing on utility
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Ty's Take There's something about late August in Billings that brings the whole region into focus, all at once. You've got the Blue Angels screaming over MetraPark while families head out to Huntley for the Threshing Bee, the kind of weekend that reminds you
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Ty's Take The news about Rockets changing hands hits different when you've watched downtown go through its cycles. A lunch counter that fed construction crews and office workers for decades doesn't just disappear because the calendar turned, and the fact that new owners saw
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Ty's Take The MET's expanding free service for Banana Ball games is the kind of small move that adds up, especially for families trying to catch a game without dropping another twenty bucks on parking. But what it really signals is Billings understanding what a lot
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Ty's Take City Council spent time this week walking people through the new garbage rules, which is exactly the kind of unglamorous work that keeps a place running right. Nobody wakes up thinking about trash day, but when the system changes and the confusion sets in, the phones
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Ty's Take A motorcycle crash that shut down Rimrock Road is a hard reminder that summer riding season around here moves fast, and so do the consequences when things go wrong. We see these calls come through, and every time it's somebody's husband or
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Ty's Take When the fair comes to town, you remember why these things matter. An emu in the poultry barn, a hairball competition, kids learning to show animals they've raised from scratch, families walking the grounds on a Sunday morning, a house burned Friday still smoldering
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Ty's Take A Billings man loading up his motorcycle to ride across the country for hemophilia awareness, neighbors we lost this week, the dairy plant passing inspection, and a shooting trial that's still working through what happened in Bonner back in 2023, these are the stories
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Ty's Take When a man admits to killing a Billings mother of five, when a trial opens over a 2023 shooting death, when a woman in Helena waits for justice in a rape case, the obits page doesn't feel like just another section anymore. These are
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Ty's Take A milk plant suspension, a political fracture inside the Republican Party, and a half-million-dollar renovation bill for South Park Pool. On the surface it looks like three separate stories fighting for attention on a slow August news cycle. But there's something worth