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Weekly video series will explore the ‘Montana ethic’

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Starting a week from today and continuing every Monday for 32 weeks, Last Best News will be running a series of video presentations by state leaders in business, politics and academics. The Montana Ethic Project was created by a group of students at Montana State University and the University of Montana. They wanted some of the brightest, most inspiring people in Montana to speak directly to other residents of this state about subjects important to themselves and to the larger society. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, Burton K. Wheeler Center for Public Policy, Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation, Montana Ethic Project, Montana State University, University of Montana, Zachary Rogala

David Crisp: Sick but still working—it’s the American way

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Crisp

Ed Kemmick makes me sick. Well, that’s not strictly true, or at least I hope not. But it is true that practically since the day we began our new partnership at Last Best News, I have been tormented by an unrelenting cold that leaves me most days feeling like I have been beaten with a stick. And some days thinking that a beating would be an improvement. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, Billings City Council, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Donald Trump, Huffington Post, Mike Yakawich, President Obama

Margaret Ping, philanthropist, volunteer, mentor dies at 103

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Ping

Margaret Ping, who spent most of her very long life helping and inspiring other people, died Saturday at Billings Clinic. She would have been 104 in May. She was born in Missouri, raised in Hardin and worked and traveled around the world. She helped bring Habitat for Humanity and Edlerhostel to Billings, and in 1994 she became the second recipient of the Jeannette Rankin Peace Award from Rocky Mountain College’s Peace Institute. In 2014 she received the YWCA of Billings’ first Meritorious Service Award. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, Big Horn County Museum, Elderhostel, Global Village, Habitat for Humanity, Jeannette Rankin Peace Award, Margaret Ping, Mayflower Congregational Church

David Crisp: Gianforte is just wrong on language proposal

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Greg

An obscure plank in Greg Gianforte’s platform exposes the liberal error at the heart of his campaign for governor. Gianforte, the founder of RightNow Technologies, gets a lot right. He looks the part, tall and lean and with a haircut that evokes memories of a great Republican hero: Dwight Eisenhower. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, Dostoevsky, Edmund Burke, French, German, Greg Gianforte, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Documents detail anti-union group’s election activities

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Motl

HELENA – Thousands of newly uncovered documents and recently filed court records bolster the already mounting evidence tying the anti-union National Right to Work Committee to the political activities of conservative nonprofit groups accused of improperly coordinating Republican legislative primary campaigns in Montana. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, News, Art Wittich, Christian LeFer, Dimitri Kesari, Jonathan Motl, Montana Commissioner of Political Practices, Right to Work

Montana Viewpoint: Calendars change, but time still flies

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Elliott

This is the time of year when we start thinking about, well, time. If you are reading this, you are wondering why time passes so quickly. Many of those who are not reading this—because they haven’t learned how to read yet—are wondering why it passes so slowly. There are students who wonder how a school year can be an eternity and a summer vacation gone in an eye-blink, and then there are some of us who must have too much time on our hands because we are actually spending some of it wondering about this. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, Buddha, Jesus Christ, Julius Caesar, Pope Gregory, Prophet Mohammed

Christmas 1967: Delivering potatoes to strikebound Butte

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BUTTE, America, 1967—In nearly a century of existence, the Mining City was no stranger to labor strife, and when Christmas came in 1967, Butte was living through its longest-ever strike. Underground miners there and smeltermen from Anaconda had been off the job since mid-July and would stay out until the following April. As a show of support, members of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union at what then was the Farmers Union Central Exchange refinery south of Laurel put together a pre-Christmas caravan for their Butte brethren. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Diversions, Montana, Butte, Butte Miners Union, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, Dumas Brothel, Evel Knievel, Farmers Union Central Exchange

Opinion: On Tongue River Railroad, enough is enough

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On the afternoon before Thanksgiving, the Tongue River Railroad Co. asked the federal Surface Transportation Board to indefinitely freeze its permit application for the proposed Tongue River Railroad. If permitted, the railroad would condemn up to 90 miles of working family farm and ranchland in southeastern Montana to build a new rail line to ship coal from the proposed Otter Creek coal mine to proposed Pacific Northwest coal export facilities and then on to Asia. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, Arch Coal. Otter Creek, Clint McRae, Mark Fix, Surface Transportation Board, Tongue River Railroad

David Crisp: Warning—This column contains alleged facts

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An alert reader sent along a message he got from U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont. “I just thought this might need an editorial reply,” the reader wrote. Agreed. In the message, Daines happily reported that the Senate had just voted to repeal Obamacare. Not until the eighth paragraph did he mention that President Obama still has to sign the bill, which nobody expects to happen. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, ADP Research Institute, Factcheck.org, Investor's Business Daily, Obamacare, S, Steve Daines