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Ty's Take A man convicted of a killing he committed as a teenager is back in the news today, which tends to happen in a town this size when the legal system finally closes a file that's been open for years. Meanwhile, the Chamber is taking
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Ty's Take A fire pushing past 15,000 acres on the Crow Reservation, a homicide case closed after two years, a power pole that sent a daycare scrambling, and a man admitting to killing another in our city. These are the kinds of stories that remind you why
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Ty's Take Somebody's finally talking serious about veterans' housing in Billings, which is overdue and worth paying attention to. We've had the conversations plenty of times around here, usually ending with "somebody ought to do something," but there's a
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Ty's Take Death notices in a small region are never just names and dates, they're the connective tissue of who we are. Today's obits remind us that Billings and the country around it lose people steadily, people who worked in the refineries or on
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Ty's Take Saturday mornings in Billings looked different this week. Down at MetraPark, folks gathered for the Relay for Life, then headed downtown to remember. Out at Yellowstone National Cemetery, others were on their hands and knees with clippers and rakes, tending graves. A memorial ride moved through
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Ty's Take Three people gone in one day, two of them taken while they sat in wheelchairs, and the rest of us are left with the weight of it and the unanswered questions. Meanwhile, down at City Hall, the conversation this week circled around whether Billings can afford
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Ty's Take Capital High kids wrestling with public lands policy from a rancher's angle beats the usual classroom civics exercise, because they're not debating abstractions. They're sitting across from people whose livelihoods hang on what Washington decides about grazing leases and water
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Ty's Take The jail tour this week laid out what everybody in county government already knew but couldn't quite say out loud until they walked those corridors: we've grown too big for the cell block we've got. Billings has been the regional
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Ty's Take Shawn Mayo's promotion to interim police chief comes at a moment when the department needs steady hands on the wheel. A hit-and-run death on our streets, an arrest made, and the kind of cases that remind you why this job matters, why
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Ty's Take Labor Day was made for this kind of weather, and Rose Park filled up the way it does when the season's turning and folks know summer's nearly gone. The photos tell you what the recap probably missed, the small details that make
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Ty's Take The way we mark September 11th has changed over a quarter century, mostly because the people doing the remembering have changed. Those of us who were here that day in 2001 remember exactly where we stood and what we felt, but the teachers in Helena working