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Ty's Take School levies don't fail in a vacuum, and voters in Billings just sent a message that's hard to miss—they're tired, stretched thin, or both. Two mill levies went down on the same ballot where board incumbents sailed through, which
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Ty's Take When a small city loses two teenagers in a drunk-driving crash the same week it buries its ordinary dead, when predators prey on the homeless and vulnerable, when old buildings come down and new leaders take the helm—you see a town all at once. Billings
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Ty's Take There's something about May that reminds you the work of this region gets done by people willing to show up—whether it's the nurses pulling double shifts at Billings Clinic and St. Vincent, the college grads walking across a stage after grinding
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Ty's Take Spring in Billings moves fast—one week you're watching the snow melt off the rims, the next you've got graduates walking across the stage at MetraPark and neighbors you've known for fifty years showing up in the obituaries. MSU Billings
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Ty's Take There's a lot of noise this week about land use and what Billings owes itself—the meat locker lot decision, the data center megawatts heading out toward Bonner, the city trying to sweeten the deal for first-time homebuyers. Underneath it all is the same
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Ty's Take RiverStone's move on the old Colonial Apartments site and the city's dollar-deal handoff of the Babcock building to Art House suggest someone downtown finally believes this neighborhood is worth betting on again. Both deals involve real money and real risk—which is
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Ty's Take Late freeze hit the valley hard this week—the kind that catches you off guard even though you know better by April—and down in the Bitterroot some growers are tallying real losses on crops that looked ready to break. Meanwhile, the FBI director's
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Ty's Take A woman is dead, and the city council is hearing what it should have heard long before—that domestic violence in Billings isn't some private matter that stays behind closed doors, it's a public safety emergency that demands public answers. Sheriff Mike
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching when people show up to City Council on a Tuesday night—means something's pushed them off the couch and into the chamber, means the thing being decided matters enough to take the time. Billings has grown fast enough
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Ty's Take The machinery of voting—the deadlines, the forms, the rules that change year to year—doesn't sound like the stuff that gets people worked up, but it does when ballots start getting rejected over something as simple as a birth year box filled wrong.