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Ty's Take The balloon rally wrapped up Sunday like it does every July, families packing up lawn chairs and heading home with the smell of propane still in their clothes and maybe a decent story about watching something that weighs a ton float silent over the valley. Out
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Ty's Take Three days now at that corner on Williamson, and what started as a vigil for Corey Ruiz has become something harder to look away from. People are showing up, staying put, grilling food and bearing witness to a moment this city can't pretend didn&
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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 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 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 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 The groundbreaking out in the Heights for a new memory care home is the kind of story that matters more than the headline suggests. This region's getting older—you see it everywhere from the clinic waiting rooms to the empty seats at high school
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Ty's Take A handful of our high school kids made the trip to Helena this week for something called Heads Up Camp—a chance to shadow folks working in behavioral health and mental wellness. It's worth noting because the kids who go to camps like that
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Ty's Take A woman faces murder charges in a killing at the Spa Hot Springs, another family buries two sisters lost to road accidents, and somewhere in this county right now a family is grieving—the kind of grief that doesn't make the job postings or
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Ty's Take The St. Peter's and Billings Clinic announcement reads like a chess move dressed up in partnership language, which tells you something about where our two anchor health systems stand—committed enough to coordinate, not quite ready to merge. That matters for a region that