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Ty's Take Spring in Billings moves fast—one week the kids are sitting for senior pictures, the next week they're walking across the stage in their caps and gowns, and somewhere in between we lose neighbors who watched them grow up. That's what today&
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Ty's Take Memorial Day weekend brought the things it always does—a parade down the main drag with folks waving from the curb, a head-on collision that could've been worse, and the quiet loss of neighbors whose names fill the back pages every week. There'
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Ty's Take The Wyoming side of the Beartooth stays locked up a little longer this spring, which means another week or two before the high country really opens up to the tourists and the folks who live for those first runs through the passes. It's the
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Ty's Take That data center north of town is going to remake how we think about Billings' future, and not in the way most of us expected. We've spent decades as an energy town—oil refining, coal, the backbone industries—and suddenly we're
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Ty's Take Red Lodge's losing a fixture this week—the collision center guy hanging it up to fish full time—and you can't blame him one bit, but it's the kind of small shift that changes how a town feels. Someone who&
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Ty's Take The Yellowstone Art Museum's funding fight isn't really about a building or even a budget line—it's about whether this region thinks cultural institutions matter enough to sustain them when money gets tight. Every county in the Northern Rockies faces
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Ty's Take The Grey Fire came close enough to make folks hold their breath, but the Greycliff Mill—one of the few pieces of industrial infrastructure left in this country—dodged the bullet. Meanwhile, Ted Turner's passing has set loose a hundred stories about what one
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Ty's Take We've gotten used to bear activity shutting things down around here—it's the price of living where we live—but having to close school buildings hits different. Bridger Elementary and the high school both locked their doors this week because of persistent
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Ty's Take That data center north of Billings is going to be the defining conversation around here for the next couple years, whether folks realize it yet or not. Two massive gas power plants to juice a facility that'll sit out there in Broadview—that'
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Ty's Take Montana's kept same-day voter registration, which means come November folks in Carbon County can still walk in and register at the polls if they haven't done it yet—no advance paperwork required. There's something to be said for that kind
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Ty's Take When the budget's this tight and the teachers still get raises, somebody's making hard choices about what matters most. The city council knows what every parent in Billings knows—you don't keep good schools by nickel-and-diming the people in the
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Ty's Take Slow week on the blotter—nothing that'll keep anybody up at night—which gives us room to notice what's actually holding this county together. There's a woman out in Joliet doing the unglamorous work of matching people with what they