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Matthew Redinger, a vice provost for academic affairs at Montana State University Billings, has been named provost at the University of Providence in Great Falls and will begin his role there on July 1. (more…) Continue Reading →
Two biblical scholars will discuss different ways of seeing and understanding the death and resurrection of Jesus in a series of talks this weekend in Billings. The Jesus Seminar on the Road event, sponsored by the Westar Institute and Billings First Congregational Church, will start Friday evening and run for most of Saturday at the church, 310 N. 27th St. (See below for details on the schedule and registration.) (more…) Continue Reading →
Dan Edelman, executive vice president of administration and chief financial officer of the University of North Texas at Dallas, has been named the next chancellor of Montana State University Billings and City College. (more…) Continue Reading →
Several Stillwater County property owners filed a lawsuit Monday against the Stillwater County Commission and county clerk and recorder, saying the officials illegally stymied their efforts to create a citizen-initiated zoning district. (more…) Continue Reading →
A Yellowstone County man who claims a judge illegally ordered his arrest is now suing that judge, and the officer who arrested him, in federal court. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Billings, Miguel Angel Reynaga Hernandez claims that former Yellowstone County Justice of the Peace Pedro Hernandez violated his civil rights when he ordered sheriff’s deputy Derrek Skinner to arrest him, despite the fact that Reynaga had not committed a crime. (more…) Continue Reading →
Two Native American couples who say they were insulted and discriminated against at a basketball game in Reed Point early in 2017 intend to file lawsuit against the Reed Point School on Monday. A press release from the Montana chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which went out Friday morning, said the ACLU had filed the suit on behalf of the couples in Stillwater County District Court, but a clerk there said nothing had been filed yet. (more…) Continue Reading →
Kevin Red Star, 74, has been making art for 50 years. That’s not quite long enough. Red Star just finished a showing with his daughter, Sunny Sky Red Star, at the Ryniker-Morrison Gallery at Rocky Mountain College. This week, he donated a 20-by-20-inch portrait called “Thunder Bear” to the college. (more…) Continue Reading →
U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., stopped in Missoula for a quick tour of the Big Sky Brewing facility on Wednesday, where he declined to meet with the two-dozen people who had gathered to participate in what the senator’s office had billed as a meeting with “local officials, community leaders and constituents.” (more…) Continue Reading →
The subject of a series of lectures to be presented at Rocky Mountain College in early March was chosen nearly a year ago, but it seems more timely than ever now. The Wheatley Lectures, scheduled for Thursday and Friday, March 8 and 9, will focus on the theme of “Creating Community in Fracturing Times: Returning Civility to Civil Dialogue.” (more…) Continue Reading →
If Montanans don’t “own” their representatives in Congress and the state Legislature, someone else will, a University of Montana law professor and dark money opponent said Monday night. (more…) Continue Reading →
