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Ty's Take When a house fire and a shooting happen on the same stretch of street in west Billings, and the airshow crowds are still settling back into their routines downtown, you get a reminder that this city runs on two speeds at once. MetraPark fills with families
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how our kids are finding their way to help when they need it most. The mental health struggles among Montana teens aren't new, and neither is the shortage of counselors and crisis lines that can actually pick
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Ty's Take Late August in Billings always feels like the moment between things, that stretch when school supplies are flying off shelves, when parents hunt down shot records and the immunization clinics fill up, when a new university president stands up and talks about vision and work ahead.
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Ty's Take A hundred-and-one-million-dollar gift to Montana State University's nursing program doesn't just move buildings around on a campus two hours north. It says something about what Billings is, or what it's becoming. We're the medical
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Ty's Take Montana's high-tech sector crossed $7.9 billion last year, and that number would've sounded like pure fiction to anyone working here twenty years ago. The shift has been quieter than a boom, which is maybe why it hasn't grabbed
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Ty's Take The school funding push in Helena is about to get serious, and those two hundred million dollars represents something this region's been chasing for years: enough breathing room to actually plan ahead instead of patch holes. Out here, we've watched good teachers
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Ty's Take You don't get many days around here when the news lands so hard on both sides at once. We've got a man in federal custody for preying on vulnerable women at a shelter, another locked up six years for firing on utility
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Ty's Take There's something about late August in Billings that brings the whole region into focus, all at once. You've got the Blue Angels screaming over MetraPark while families head out to Huntley for the Threshing Bee, the kind of weekend that reminds you
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Ty's Take The news about Rockets changing hands hits different when you've watched downtown go through its cycles. A lunch counter that fed construction crews and office workers for decades doesn't just disappear because the calendar turned, and the fact that new owners saw
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Ty's Take The MET's expanding free service for Banana Ball games is the kind of small move that adds up, especially for families trying to catch a game without dropping another twenty bucks on parking. But what it really signals is Billings understanding what a lot
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Ty's Take City Council spent time this week walking people through the new garbage rules, which is exactly the kind of unglamorous work that keeps a place running right. Nobody wakes up thinking about trash day, but when the system changes and the confusion sets in, the phones
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Ty's Take A motorcycle crash that shut down Rimrock Road is a hard reminder that summer riding season around here moves fast, and so do the consequences when things go wrong. We see these calls come through, and every time it's somebody's husband or