It isn’t easy to criticize the punditry of Laurel veterinarian and former state legislator Krayton Kerns. But let’s do it anyway. Continue Reading →
Opinion
Cow doctor finds Marxists just about everywhere
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Last words, maybe, and a few thanks from Last Best News
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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.
Montana
Cooke City woman to adopt Grace, the rescued horse
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Grace, the badly injured, half-starved horse that was rescued from the wilderness outside Cooke City, has a new owner.
Park County commissioners voted Tuesday morning to allow Debbi Purvis to buy the horse from the county. Purvis said it was a victory for the community of Cooke City, where she lives and is a part owner of the Beartooth Cafe. Continue Reading →
Diversions
BugBytes: Sometimes, life imitates Pokémon
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A couple of weeks ago, I made a grave mistake. A friend posted this message on Facebook: “I just helped my 56-year-old boss catch a Charmander in our shop…” My idiot response: “What the hell is a Charmander?”
At first, for a shiny, short-lived second, I assumed my friend was simply using an obscure common name to refer to a wayward snake or lizard. Thus, I was nearly out the door to aid in what I imagined to be an exciting, around-the-office reptile rescue. Continue Reading →
Montana
Montana Ethic Project: Creating safe workplaces
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This is the 22nd chapter of the 32-part video series “The Montana Ethic Project.” This chapter features Larry Simkins, president and CEO of Missoula-based Washington Companies, discussing the subject, “The Culture of Safety.” You can watch the whole video below. Here is how it begins:
Prairie Lights
Prairie Lights: Notable venues put Montana on musical map
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Montana doesn’t have any concert venues with the wide renown of places like the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado or the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington state.
But how many states have three venues as cool as the White Sulphur Springs cow pasture that is the home of the Red Ants Pants Music Festival; uptown Butte, with its Montana Folk Festival; and Montana Avenue, site of the Magic City Blues festival? Continue Reading →
News
3-war warrior had varied Air Force career
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The tattered plastic box had an Army post office box number from Vietnam that didn’t exist anymore. Inside was a tape recording of an F-100 Super Saber pilot flying out of Bien Hoa (pronounced Ben Waah) Air Base in that country; it was a way of keeping the pilot’s wife and family current with his combat tour activities.
It was Jan. 13, 1970, the pilot with the call sign “Bobcat 2” was Air Force Col. Robert Laliberté (La-liber-tay), and this was his third war. The oil pressure of his F-100 had just started a precipitous dive, and he was preparing for a possible bailout. Continue Reading →
Opinion
Opinion: Wyoming’s ‘clean coal’ plans stir false hopes
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It’s no secret that the U.S. coal industry’s hopes of revival by exporting its product to Asia via West Coast ports—what Platts has called an “export or die” strategy—have been dashed by the structural decline in global coal markets.
That’s why Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead’s recent announcement that a new “clean coal” technology partnership between his state and a Japanese consortium could open up plans for exports of Powder River Basin coal only stirs up false hopes. Continue Reading →
Diversions
Injured, alone in the wilds, amazing Grace is on the mend
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Just call her amazing Grace.
The 5-year-old sorrel survived at least two months in the depths of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, hobbled by a bad leg wound and unable to leave an area thick with deadfall.
Kay and Bill Whittle, the Cooke City couple who rescued Grace, surmised that she had been injured crossing the upper reaches of the Stillwater River, then cut loose by the man who owned her, 49-year-old Christopher Shaul. Continue Reading →
