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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
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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 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 The timing on this automotive program couldn't be better—we've got kids who'd rather learn with a wrench in their hand than sit through another algebra class, and we've got a real shortage of folks who know what
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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 There's a particular kind of trust that gets broken when government work happens without anyone knowing about it. The CG treatment moving forward in our area without public meetings or impact studies sits wrong—not because the work might be necessary, but because folks
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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.
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Ty's Take The snowpack numbers sitting at 75 percent of median tells you everything you need to know about what's coming downstream this summer—and it's not much. We've seen dry years before, but record lows at multiple reporting sites up the