HELENA — Campaign finance watchdogs were waiting on pins and needles this week in anticipation of the final text of a massive bill to fund the federal government. That’s because earlier drafts of House and Senate appropriations bills contained a series of so-called “poison pill” riders that critics said would have reshaped campaign finance laws. (more…) Continue Reading →
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Civil rights panel plans ‘bordertown’ forum in Hardin
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Following up on a public forum held in Billings in 2016, the Montana Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will hold a similar hearing in Hardin on Thursday, March 29. The event, officially billed as “A Community Forum on Bordertown Discrimination in Montana,” is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Hardin Middle School, 611 W. Fifth Street. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Gwen Kircher, Hardin, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
MSU acquires letters from ‘Zen’ author Pirsig
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BOZEMAN — The Montana State University Library has acquired a collection of letters written to and from one of the university’s most famous employees, the author Robert Pirsig. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, MSU, Robert Pirsig
Indy staffers expand on reasons for forming union
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Staffers at the Missoula Independent took the first step this week in forming a union to preserve the paper’s independence under the ownership of Lee Enterprises, a corporate chain that owns five other papers in Montana, including the Missoulian. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Lee Enterprises, Missoula Independent, Missoulian
Missoula Independent takes steps toward unionization
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The employees of the Missoula Independent have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to begin the process of forming a union, according to a press release sent Monday afternoon by the Missoula News Guild Organizing Committee. Support for the filing was unanimous across the staff’s editorial, production and sales departments, the release stated. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Montana, News, Lee Enterprises, Missoula Independent, Missoulian
New wind farm planned near Geyser
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Allete Clean Energy is planning to build an 80-megawatt wind farm near Geyser under a 15-year power purchase agreement with NorthWestern Energy. Allete acquired the South Peak project from Peak Clean Energy and expects to bring it online by late 2019. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Montana, News, Allete Clean Energy, Geyser, NorthWestern Energy
Tester, Gianforte call for Yellowstone protections
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Sen. Jon Tester and Rep. Greg Gianforte are urging congressional leaders to include protections for 30,000 acres north of Yellowstone National Park in this year’s spending bill, citing widespread opposition to mineral development eyed for the area. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Greg Gianforte, Jon Tester, Yellowstone Gateway Protection Act
Billings students join national walkout to protest gun deaths
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About 600 students from Billings’ three public high schools joined students across the country Wednesday morning in a 17-minute walkout to commemorate the 17 people killed in the Parkland, Florida, school shooting last month. (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: Billings, News, gun violence, School District 2, Senior High, Terry Bouck
Camera-gear raffle will aid fight against sex trafficking
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Ever since she and her husband started an organization two and a half years ago to help women escape and recover from sexual exploitation, Britney Higgs said, they have never stopped being amazed at how much help they’ve been given. “It’s been super faith-building,” she said. “We literally get to witness miracles every day.” (more…) Continue Reading →
Filed under: News, Britney and Sammy Higgs, Dave Shumway, Her Campaign, Rocky Mountain College
Missoula City Council’s letter hails students’ activism
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Missoula City Council members signed their names to a letter Monday night beseeching students at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to continue their advocacy for solutions to gun violence in America. (more…) Continue Reading →
