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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, or
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Ty's Take There's something to be said for a business that knows when to fold and move forward. Zest Kitchen Supply spent years building a name downtown, and now they're rebranding as Popover after a copyright dispute—not exactly the ending they drew up,
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Ty's Take Most towns measure their summer by when the beer gardens open and the tourists show up. Billings measures it by ZooMontana events—when you know the whole city's about to tear itself loose for a few hours and remember why living here beats about
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Ty's Take Three high schools walking their seniors across the stage this week, and you see it every year—the relief on parents' faces, the kids grinning like they've already figured out what comes next. But the real story's quieter. It's
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Ty's Take TJ Comstock built seven hardware stores across Montana, but he's closing the Billings location where it all started—and that's worth thinking about. You can read it as a business story, sure, another Main Street shift as retail changes shape. But it&
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Ty's Take When a man pleads guilty to meth charges after being swept up in a controversial police raid, when two scientists from one of the region's most sensitive research facilities face federal charges, and when the county sheriff's office is searching for interim
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Ty's Take A doctor from the Blackfeet reservation blowing the whistle on a clinic dispensing tens of thousands of pain pills—that's the kind of story that sits heavy on you, because you know the math by now. Those pills don't disappear. They get
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Ty's Take The cardboard recycling program gets the axe while a tribal health clinic faces hard questions about opioid distribution—two stories that show how every decision, even the small ones about what we throw away, ripples through a region that's still learning to take care
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Ty's Take There's something worth sitting with in the Scare Ladies nonprofit paying off lunch debt for kids graduating out of Helena schools. Not the feel-good angle—though that's real enough—but what it says about who we are out here. A bunch of
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Ty's Take Lockwood sent 112 kids out into the world on Sunday, which means 112 families sat in folding chairs squinting into the sun, wondering where the time went. That's the math of a graduating class in a town that's mostly known as a