Last Best News (https://montana-mint.com/lastbestnews/page/10/)
I was planning to ride off into the sunset today, but if I may appropriate an observation by Benjamin Franklin, it looks as though I might be heading in the direction of the rising sun.
In the week since I announced that Last Best News would cease publication today, I have heard so many expressions of interest in reviving it in some shape or form, with or without my continued involvement, that it appears likely that this independent online newspaper will live on.
Vince Long recently completed a year-long deep dive into Billings history, and now he’s sharing the fruits of his labor on the internet.
Those fruits consist of 980 hours and 13 minutes of random audio slices of Billings in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, though some of the trove also consists of national radio broadcasts recorded in Billings. Continue Reading →
People in Montana have good reason to be proud of Jess Lockwood.
Last November, at the age of 20, he became the youngest person ever, and the first from Montana, to win the Professional Bull Riders World Championship in Las Vegas. Continue Reading →
Things are going to be hopping at the Wise Wonders Children’s Museum — and at 100 or so other nonprofit agencies in Billings and the surrounding region —this Thursday and Friday.
The nonprofits are all taking part in Yellowstone Valley Gives, a 30-hour fundraising drive organized by the Billings Community Foundation. It’s part of a nationwide giving day to benefit nonprofits. Continue Reading →
I gasped a little when I scooped the Sunday Billings Gazette off the front porch.
“Tester to resign,” the front-page headline screamed. Continue Reading →
A jailer at the Yellowstone County Detention Facility spent a weekend on the other side of the bars earlier this month, after she was arrested for allegedly assaulting another jail employee off-duty. Continue Reading →
Buildings have a way of disappearing where I live. They rot, burn, atomize and move. I have an aerial photo of the ranch from 1950 or so. On the part of the ranch I call the Fox place there is the cabin that housed Mr. Fox in one end and his horse in the other. Continue Reading →
Voices from the Valley is an occasional series of conversations between Sherri Cornett and Billings-area leaders who are committed to creating a vibrant community for all.
Contemplative, modest and a self-described introvert … Fitzgerald “Jerry” Clark talked with me about courage, the power of our youth, embracing change and looking at our own frailties. Continue Reading →
Many people have been asking why those of us in the news business want the names of the three Billings police officers disciplined for on-the-job sex (or on-city-property sex) with a Police Department clerk. Continue Reading →
I had intended to cover the speech today by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but inasmuch as I am typing this while he still speaks, according to the schedule, I guess you can tell I didn’t make it. Continue Reading →
When I was in the U.S. Army, I recited an “Oath of Enlistment” when I joined, gained rank, and re-enlisted. In it, I swore to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States.” There are fewer words you say in the military that show the seriousness of what you are about to do. Continue Reading →
