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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.
This is the 13th chapter of the 32-part video series “The Montana Ethic Project.” This chapter features Peggy Beltrone, president of Exergy Integrated Systems in Great Falls, speaking on “Montana Wind Energy—Business and Politics.”
You can watch the whole video below. Here is how it begins: Continue Reading →
I told myself I wouldn’t write about Donald Trump again.
But if I may quote the late Jim Harrison, writing in another context entirely, “it was like trying not to think of a white horse.” Trump is lodged so firmly in my mind, and in the minds of millions of my fellow Americans, that love him or hate him it is hard not to think about him. Continue Reading →
If you don’t have time to go to Yellowstone National Park this Memorial Day weekend, a closer, but enchanting trip up the Stillwater Valley might be a good alternative and one where you still can savor wildlife, from sandhill cranes to elk, and an eruption of wildflowers.
Spring in the Stillwater Valley is busting out. Continue Reading →
With all signs pointing to a busy summer in Yellowstone National Park—possibly even a record year for visitation—the best way to avoid the crowds will be to park your car and hit the trail. Which is exactly how Montana hiker and blogger Jake Bramante spent his summer last year.
After 40 days of hiking, documenting and rating dozens of trails in Yellowstone in 2015, Bramante has released a comprehensive topographic map covering 65 day hikes in nearly every corner of the park. Continue Reading →
Montana is a beef-raising state, and supporters of Donald Trump came to MetraPark on Thursday ready for red meat.
Trump, speaking for about 50 minutes before perhaps 6,000 people in Rimrock Arena, served up several helpings in a characteristically rambling speech that consisted in large part of an account of his remarkable rise from political neophyte to the Republican nomination for president of the United States. Continue Reading →
Skylar Petrik has some misgivings about Donald Trump, but he can’t wait to cast his first vote in a presidential election for the billionaire developer.
Petrik, an 18-year-old from Sidney, flew his Cessna-172 to Billings for the Trump rally in the MetraPark arena Thursday afternoon, and he brought two friends with him. Continue Reading →
I just can’t stop shaking my head at the absurdity of it all.
Yesterday afternoon, a lawsuit was filed in the Northern District of Texas by the Texas attorney general and 10 other states (and several local school boards). Continue Reading →
Starting at 9 a.m. six days a week, the donations start flowing into the Montana Rescue Mission Bargain Center at 1233 S. 24th St. W.
There is clothing, great heaps and mountains of clothes for men, women and children for every season of the year. There are dishes and appliances and housewares of all kinds, rivers of fabrics and linens, back-breaking numbers of books and record albums, exercise equipment, luggage, Christmas decorations, lighting fixtures and a million and one of the gewgaws with which people decorate their homes. Continue Reading →
