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Ty's Take The PSC hearing on Northwestern Energy's long-term power plan pulled out what matters most in a region like ours: people aren't interested in abstractions about kilowatts and infrastructure. They showed up to talk about what kind of future they want their
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Ty's Take Jeff Warner spent eighteen years keeping the water flowing down from the high country to our taps, the kind of job nobody thinks about until something goes wrong. That's the real work of a small town, the unglamorous stuff that happens before dawn and
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Ty's Take Montana's data center conversation keeps getting louder, and it's happening in ways most of us aren't paying attention to yet. A bill that slipped through the legislative session could reshape how the state handles data centers going forward, and meanwhile
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Ty's Take The cattle count stays flat, the wolf pack leaves the park, and now the state wants grizzlies off the federal leash. Any rancher will tell you these three things don't sit separate from each other, they're all part of the same pressure
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Ty's Take The Montana Club's multimillion-dollar expansion down in Helena is the kind of project that catches attention around here, mostly because it reminds you what happens when a local business gets traction and decides to double down instead of cash out. Four new venues
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Ty's Take Radius Recycling's exit leaves a hole that matters more than it might seem from the outside—we've lost not just a recycling option but a business that was trying to build infrastructure in a state where most chains see us as a
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Ty's Take The water notice hitting mailboxes this week is the kind of thing that gets everybody's attention around here, especially heading into summer when the creek's already running thin and the tourists start rolling in. But buried in the bureaucracy is something worth
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Ty's Take The Stillwater mine rejection and the Red Lodge settlement both point to the same hard truth: when something goes wrong out here—whether it's a contract negotiation or a freak gust of wind on a mountainside—people don't move fast toward forgiveness
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in what happened this week while most of us were focused on the heat and weekend plans: Billings doubled down on its role as the keeper of this region's story. The new Conservation Legacy Center opening up isn&
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Ty's Take County fair season's here, which means the whole valley stops what it's doing for a week and remembers why we stay put in Sweet Grass County. You'll see the same families working the same booths their parents worked, kids showing