Now that our national leaders are learning that sexual harassment is a bad thing, what comes next? Learning to use forks and spoons? (more…) Continue Reading →
Tax bills a mixed bag for Montana
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Daines never should have endorsed Moore
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When U.S. Sen. Steve Daines endorsed Roy Moore for the U.S. Senate last week, Daines said, “Judge Moore is a principled conservative.” (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, Steve Daines
‘Doubt’ makes persuasive theater opener
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Nothing evokes the hazards of theatrical entrepreneurship like introducing the company’s first season with a play called “Doubt.”
But the Yellowstone Repertory Theatre’s maiden production quickly removed all doubt about the quality of its work, if not the sustainability of its venture. “Doubt: A Parable” was performed superbly and suggests high promise for the season to follow. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Billings, Culture, Bobbi Hawk, Caitlin Hart, Craig Huisenga, Dan Nickerson, Dina Brophy, Wanda Morales
A lifelong wait for World Series win
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On a mild spring night in 1965, nestled in cots on a screened-in back porch in South Texas, my brother and I started listening on the radio to Houston Astros baseball games. I was 14 and he was 13. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Houston Astros, Joe Morgan, Nolan Ryan
Students pay high price for cell phones
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Plummeting seven stories in an elevator at Montana State University Billings, I found myself in a car full of students. All of them were standing quietly, looking at their phones. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Atlantic Monthly, Smartphones
Note to politicians: Keep the money
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It isn’t the function of government to take money from bad people and give it to good people, but if that’s how things happen to turn out, why complain? Yet some Americans do. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Corey Stapleton, Greg Gianforte, Karen Marshall, Matt Rosendale, Roy Loewenstein
Fagg argues for God-inspired Constitution
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I have tried without much success to take an interest in the parboiled debate over Judge Russell Fagg’s so-called shadow campaign for the U.S. Senate. But my dutiful slog through Fagg’s defense of his actions in the Oct. 8 Billings Gazette screeched to a halt when I encountered this sentence: “Our constitution, divinely inspired, gives everyone the right to express their opinions.” (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Ben Franklin, George Washington, James Madison, Russell Fagg
For Daines, ideology trumps evidence
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U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., has a history of making dubious claims. Perhaps none was more dubious than his response to the Las Vegas massacre: “History shows us that more gun laws do not make our society safer.” (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Greg Gianforte, Jon Tester, Steve Daines
Sharing a cell with Czech mate
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Trying to understand America, I found myself in a prison cell in Czechoslovakia in 1978. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Opinion, Donald Trump, Ken Burns, Vaclav Havel, Vietnam
Common Read follows history of protest
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Thanks to the president’s ongoing commitment to bring us together by uniting the National Football League against him, the timing of Rocky Mountain College’s Common Read couldn’t be better. (more…) Continue Reading →
