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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.
One way or another, This House of Books is going to open on Oct. 1.
So says Gary Robson, CEO and general manager of the independent cooperative bookstore that signed a lease last month on a 2,800-square-foot retail space at 224 N. Broadway. Continue Reading →
RED LODGE — Kate Belinda needs your vote, but she’s not running for office.
She is competing against 15 other teachers around the country for a chance to win a $100,000 grant through the Dream Big Teachers Challenge, sponsored by Farmers Insurance. Continue Reading →
When I moved to Trout Creek in 1975 to set up in ranching, I shipped my farm equipment by rail: swather, baler, combine, three tractors—including the 1941 model H Farmall I had learned to drive on—plows, disks, the whole works.
It had taken 20 days to load it all so it would get the car inspection’s OK, which meant that nothing should fall off on the way. Continue Reading →
I had several excellent reasons for taking a Sunday drive on Tuesday.
One was that I had been noticing more and more signs of the coming of fall in the past few days. Wondering how in the hell I had let another summer slip away so heedlessly, I knew I needed to take in some sights. Continue Reading →
I was just about ready to start this column this way: If you are not sufficiently depressed yet about the 2016 election, then I have a reading assignment for you. But suddenly I feel better. I admit that I’ve become unhealthily obsessed with this year’s presidential race. It’s the first time since the Kennedy-Nixon election of 1960 that I have genuinely worried about what will become of the country if the wrong candidate wins. I was only 9 years old then. Continue Reading →
Editor’s note: After speaking recently with Stephen Zabawa, a partner in the Rimrock Auto Group and the director of SafeMontana, which seeks to restrict access to illegal drugs, Hugh Healow wrote an extended Facebook post on their conversation. We are reprinting it here in a slightly modified form.
So I called Steve Zabawa last week to discuss my concern over SafeMontana’s approach to public drug policy, and to my delight he was willing to have a conversation with me. Continue Reading →
Greg Gianforte and Steve Bullock painted very different pictures of Montana in a debate at Montana State University Billings Monday night.
Gov. Bullock, the incumbent Democrat, described a Montana that is fiscally prudent and a magnet for entrepreneurs. He said the state is growing rapidly in terms of median income and gross domestic product. Gianforte, the Republican challenger, characterized Montana as poorly managed, with declining reserve funds and low wages that drive young people out of the state. Continue Reading →
MISSOULA — The night after Missoula became an official “welcoming city,” in refugee speak, a film crew with Al Jazeera English unloaded its gear and began shooting a short feature on the city’s resettlement efforts. Continue Reading →
