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Ty's Take Montana's going to let people register and vote the same day come November, which is the kind of thing that sounds simple until you're actually running a polling place and trying to verify someone's residency while the line's
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Ty's Take Quiet weeks like this one remind you why small-town papers matter—not because we're chasing headlines, but because we're keeping track of who's doing what and where. The briefs column is where you find out the county commission met, the
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Ty's Take When grant money starts moving in this county, you can usually trace it back to somebody sitting in a room saying "we've got a problem worth fixing." The Northwest Energy and Missouri-Madison River Fund just handed out half a million dollars to
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Ty's Take Brownfield talk in a small town usually means one of two things: either somebody's finally going to clean up an eyesore, or somebody's going to spend five years in meetings while nothing happens. Red Lodge is in that conversation right now, looking
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Ty's Take Fourteen percent of folks signing up for ACA coverage in Carbon County are looking at January premiums they're genuinely worried about affording, which is another way of saying the math still doesn't work for a slice of this community no matter how
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Ty's Take The East Side Fire sitting at 32 percent containment is the kind of number that doesn't tell you much until you've lived through fire season in this country—then it tells you everything. We've got unified command on it, which
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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