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Ty's Take The vote at the mill wasn't close, and that tells you something about what the company's last offer looked like to the men and women who work there. When a union membership turns down a contract by the kind of margin we
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Ty's Take There's a lot happening around Red Lodge this spring, from the wrestling champ heading to state and the music festival gearing up to the fair coming around again, and that's the good stuff you want to see in a small town. But
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Ty's Take A year after the Owl Bar shooting in Anaconda, that small mining town is still carrying the weight of what happened there, and the rest of us in this region ought to remember why those stories matter even after the news cycle moves on. Tragedy in
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Ty's Take Jory Thomas spent his whole life around here, knew these mountains and this river the way some people know their own hands. He was the kind of man who showed up, who did the work, who didn't need a lot of fanfare about it.
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Ty's Take The scam that landed a Chinese national in federal prison is the kind of thing that hits different when you know the victim. A 73-year-old from Joliet gets cleaned out by someone on the other side of the world, and there's something
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Ty's Take The sentences piling up in Yellowstone County courtrooms this week tell you something about what law enforcement has been wrestling with out here. A former BIA officer drawing fourteen years for a crime against a kid in Lame Deer. Two guys running poaching operations across three
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Ty's Take A $10,000 gift to the Carnegie Library doesn't sound like much until you've watched a county seat library operate on a shoestring, and then you understand it's the difference between keeping the doors open and hoping someone upstairs remembers
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Ty's Take St. John's Lutheran Services jumping into senior housing tells you something about where Billings sits right now, squeezed between aging baby boomers who don't want to leave and a shortage of places built for them to stay. The organization knows there'
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Ty's Take The balloon rally wrapped up Sunday like it does every July, families packing up lawn chairs and heading home with the smell of propane still in their clothes and maybe a decent story about watching something that weighs a ton float silent over the valley. Out
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Ty's Take Fair week coming up means the fairgrounds north of town will look like the whole county decided to show up at once, which is pretty much what happens. The kids will have their stock in the barns before dawn, the 4-H booths will be running
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Ty's Take Three days now at that corner on Williamson, and what started as a vigil for Corey Ruiz has become something harder to look away from. People are showing up, staying put, grilling food and bearing witness to a moment this city can't pretend didn&