Maybe Montana should take one for the team.
Why not? We are, after all, the best of America. We have the best scenery, the best writers and the best national parks. With climate change, we may soon have the mildest climate. Continue Reading →
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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.
Maybe Montana should take one for the team.
Why not? We are, after all, the best of America. We have the best scenery, the best writers and the best national parks. With climate change, we may soon have the mildest climate. Continue Reading →
Sperry Chalet is filling with snow, but its talus-stone skeleton remains intact, an overflight of the historic Glacier National Park dormitory showed last week.
Photographs taken from a helicopter revealed a noticeably deeper accumulation of snow inside the burned-out lodge than did similar photos taken during a February flight. Other buildings at the site, which were not burned, appeared to be nearly buried in the snow. Continue Reading →
This is Part 2 of a two-day package of stories marking the 40th anniversary of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. Yesterday we looked at how the wilderness came into being.
For Montanans, there’s not much question about the importance of Lee Metcalf’s legacy. Continue Reading →
This is Part 1 of a two-day package of stories marking the 40th anniversary of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. Tomorrow we look at the larger legacy of the late Sen. Lee Metcalf, who introduced the bill creating the wilderness.
In describing the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, a vast, high plateau in southwestern Montana encompassing nearly 1 million acres, people tend to employ lofty terms. Continue Reading →
Montana is on the front lines of some of the worst impacts caused by the changing climate. Large, intense wildfires are incredibly expensive to fight, limit our outdoor opportunities, keep tourists away and impact the health of thousands upon thousands of Montanans, especially the young and the elderly. Continue Reading →
HELENA — Campaign finance watchdogs were waiting on pins and needles this week in anticipation of the final text of a massive bill to fund the federal government. That’s because earlier drafts of House and Senate appropriations bills contained a series of so-called “poison pill” riders that critics said would have reshaped campaign finance laws. Continue Reading →
Five years ago, Anna Gramza, then Anna Biegel, entered the Miss Montana International Pageant, hoping she could ace the talent portion of the competition with her piano skills.
Only after entering the competition did she learn that this particular pageant didn’t even have a talent event, “but it was fun, so I kept doing it,” she said. She ended up winning, and reigned as Miss Montana International during 2012-2013. Continue Reading →
Six experts will address the question of what makes a piece of writing a poem during a panel discussion this Saturday, March 24, at This House of Books in downtown Billings. Continue Reading →
Following up on a public forum held in Billings in 2016, the Montana Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will hold a similar hearing in Hardin on Thursday, March 29.
The event, officially billed as “A Community Forum on Bordertown Discrimination in Montana,” is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Hardin Middle School, 611 W. Fifth Street. Continue Reading →
BOZEMAN — The Montana State University Library has acquired a collection of letters written to and from one of the university’s most famous employees, the author Robert Pirsig. Continue Reading →