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Ty's Take A former militia leader admitting to child sex abuse, closing arguments in a nursing home case that left families angry and grieving, and the kind of slow summer news cycle that usually means people are too busy living their lives to read much—that's
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Ty's Take Couple of our kids made the Northwest College Honor Roll this semester, which means they're carrying Big Timber's name up to Powell and holding their own in the classroom—worth noting in a county where half the seniors head straight to work
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Ty's Take The state fine landing on the animal shelter for that meth lab mess isn't just about one building or one bad decision—it's a reminder that repeated warnings only work if somebody actually listens, and that we all pay the price when
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Ty's Take The fly-in and car show this weekend is the kind of event that reminds you why people stick around here—where else can you park a restored '57 Chevy next to a Cessna on the same stretch of ground and call it Saturday? It
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Ty's Take The state education board's approval of MAST as Montana's new statewide assessment comes with conditions attached, which is the only way these things ever work in a state as divided as ours on what kids ought to know and how we measure
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Ty's Take Montana's water picture is getting harder to ignore, and the state's decision to expand its Mesonet stations—those automated weather and soil monitors scattered across the landscape—is the kind of quiet preparation that usually means someone's worried about what&
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Ty's Take We're heading into the Fourth of July with the nation's 250th birthday on the horizon next year, which means someone in town is already thinking about what Billings does when we mark a quarter-millennium. That's the kind of thing
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Ty's Take You know it's spring in Red Lodge when Broadway starts looking like a construction zone and the city has to start telling people where they can't park. The Dead Swede project—that's the old hotel getting a long-overdue facelift—
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Ty's Take Randy Hafer's electric bills run about thirty bucks a month, which tells you something worth knowing about how this region's going to have to think about energy in the years ahead—not as an either-or fight between the old economy and
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Ty's Take Our fire departments are training together at the new Fireboot Camp, Town Pump's throwing three-quarters of a million dollars at the problem, and nobody's pretending this is some feel-good story about community spirit—it's survival math. Wildfire season
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Ty's Take A hundred fifty years is long enough that most of us think we've settled the hard questions, but the Little Bighorn centennial coverage this week reminds you that some ground—literal and moral—stays contested in Montana. The photographs, the tribal reflections, the careful
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Ty's Take The Eagles Nest has been part of Red Lodge's skyline longer than most of us have been alive, and watching it sit there broken after last year's floods has been like watching a neighbor's house fall into disrepair—you keep