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Ty's Take Brownfield talk in a small town usually means one of two things: either somebody's finally going to clean up an eyesore, or somebody's going to spend five years in meetings while nothing happens. Red Lodge is in that conversation right now, looking
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Ty's Take A thin news day in early May usually means the community's attention is split between spring work and the machinery of an election season, but today's headlines carry weight anyway—a teenager dead in a motorcycle crash, a woman killed near Big
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Ty's Take Every spring in a town like this, you get a particular kind of story—the kid who worked hard, stayed focused, and now gets to walk across that stage knowing they earned it. Micah Falls is that story, the kind that reminds you why you stick
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Ty's Take The school levy went down and Jim Hanson lost his seat Tuesday night, which means Sweet Grass County just told its board of trustees something plain: we're not spending more money the way things stand now. You can read that as anger about the
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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 Supaman rolled through town this week sharing music and culture, and the Lions Club marked a hundred years of showing up for neighbors, it reminded you what these gatherings are really about—they're the connective tissue that keeps a place like Big Timber
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Ty's Take Fourteen percent of folks signing up for ACA coverage in Carbon County are looking at January premiums they're genuinely worried about affording, which is another way of saying the math still doesn't work for a slice of this community no matter how
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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.
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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
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Ty's Take The East Side Fire sitting at 32 percent containment is the kind of number that doesn't tell you much until you've lived through fire season in this country—then it tells you everything. We've got unified command on it, which