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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, by Gwen Florio, The Permanent Press, 2013. 256 pages, $28.
It appears that Lola Wicks is going to become a familiar character in this part of the world, and that the corpses are going to keep piling up. Continue Reading →
To mark the 75th anniversary of Billings Senior High School, a volunteer committee has launched a “Save Our Murals” campaign to restore and protect the iconic artwork adorning walls and stairwells around the school.
“Just think of them not being on the walls anymore,” Kristeen Keup said. “That’s just not possible.” Continue Reading →
Dear Ed: I gave up the Internet for the summer, thinking I needed to get off the digital merry go-round, read some books and experience the real world in real time. I was doing just fine — actually, I hadn’t felt better in all my 20 years — until recently. Continue Reading →
At a meeting Friday morning to talk about how to get students and teachers into and out of Broadwater Elementary School starting next week, Principal Joe Halligan cut to the chase.
“The first couple days — it’s going to be crazy,” he said. Continue Reading →
The summer of 1964 changed the face of the United States in ways that are still being played out today, and Montana’s Sen. Lee Metcalf was at the center of it all. Continue Reading →
Is it possible that Mayor Tom Hanel was right?
I don’t mean right to cast the deciding vote against a nondiscrimination ordinance in Billings last week. I mean right that this town just isn’t ready for such an ordinance. Continue Reading →
The company that is proposing to build five oil refineries in Montana and North Dakota — projects that would require funding of $2.5 billion — appears to have very few assets itself.
Bloomberg was reporting as of Wednesday afternoon that Quantum Energy Inc.’s market capitalization — the number of outstanding shares times the value of a share — was about $3.8 million. Continue Reading →
I made the phone call hoping he wouldn’t answer. This was going to be tough conversation and my husband, although great under pressure, would have a hard time making this decision. I was trying to figure out a way to lessen the impact. Continue Reading →
In 1986, when I was a junior at Richland High School in North Richland Hills, Texas, the local chapter of the NAACP came to my school with a request: It wanted us to drop the Confederate flag from our letterhead, our uniforms, the middle of our gym floor. Continue Reading →
