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Ty's Take The obits page tells you something the business section won't—this region's still losing the generation that built it. Three names today, ranging from their seventies into their nineties, the kind of lives that spanned from when Billings was half this size
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Ty's Take There's something worth sitting with in today's paper—a paleo artist down in Miles City capturing what looks like the last moments of a dinosaur, a kid from here heading to St. Louis to speak her mind, and meanwhile we're
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Ty's Take Making the honor roll at Northwest College doesn't happen by accident, especially when you're commuting down from Sweet Grass County and working a job on the side like most kids do out here. These students earned their names on that list the
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Ty's Take Bear spray training might sound like a one-afternoon checkbox, but anyone who's had to use it—or worse, wished they had—knows the difference between carrying a canister and actually knowing what to do when a grizzly decides you're in its
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Ty's Take The data center fight keeps getting messier—first Missoula pumps the brakes with a moratorium, then Quantica throws its weight behind a county lawsuit that's got people fired up. Meanwhile, the rest of us are trying to figure out what this boom actually means
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Ty's Take A hundred years on this earth and still somebody you want to give a ride to—that's the kind of thing that sticks with you in a town like this. These two folks are living proof that Sweet Grass County doesn't use
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Ty's Take There's something that settles in a community when sentences get handed down for crimes against children—a kind of collective exhale mixed with the knowledge that justice, even when it comes, doesn't undo anything. The hundred-year sentence in Helena Valley doesn&
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Ty's Take The ICE raids down in Gallatin County this week hit closer to home than some folks around here want to admit—we've got neighbors and friends in the agricultural and construction trades who live with that kind of uncertainty every single day, and when
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Ty's Take Legionnaire's disease at a downtown hotel, a data center question heading to court before voters get their say, animal control caught in a budget squeeze—this is the kind of week that reminds you Billings isn't just a regional hub, it'