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Ty's Take Two elderly women scrapping over bingo money at the community center tells you something true about this valley—we're stretched thin, everybody's watching their dollars, and the stakes feel higher than they probably are because there's not much margin for
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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 The snowpack numbers out of the Upper Yellowstone are sitting at 75 percent of median—record lows in some places—which means water managers and ranchers are already doing the math on what a dry summer looks like for cattle operations and irrigation that's
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Ty's Take The Surface Transportation Board's decision to let the rail line go hits different when you've watched this valley depend on it for over a century—not just for moving potatoes and barley out, but for the kind of connection that keeps a
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Ty's Take Dexter's Mike Smith is headed to Louisville next month and could make history as the oldest rider ever to win the Kentucky Derby, which says something about this country—that grit and timing and knowing your craft don't have an expiration date.
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Ty's Take The Surface Transportation Board's final call on rail abandonment hits different down here than it does in Denver or back East—we're not talking about some commuter line that nobody rode anyway, we're talking about the thread that ties this
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers in a murder case, but Shannon County folks know by now that justice in this county moves on its own schedule—and sometimes not without a cost to the people wearing the badge. Three arrests in
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Ty's Take You can read a lot about a community in what it chooses to build and how it pays for it. West Plains is pushing forward on a sports complex with a one-cent sales tax, the justice center's going to need new revenue too, and
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Ty's Take Governor showing up for WNMU's commencement in 2026 is the kind of thing that looks good in the ceremony program, but what really matters is whether she's paying attention to what her administration's doing down here—like that pipeline proposal
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Ty's Take Nobody's paying attention to the unemployment number because it's good—4.2 percent is solid work in a seasonal economy that lives and dies on winter snow and summer visitors—but what matters is what comes next. The Gateway River Project limping
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Ty's Take A bomb threat at Lebanon High closed the school and drew heavy law enforcement response this afternoon—the kind of disruption that ripples through a whole community fast, especially when kids are involved. Meanwhile, down in Versailles, another predator's facing additional charges that push
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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