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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.
Bozeman billionaire Greg Gianforte, whose scheduled commencement speech at Montana Tech in Butte has prompted some students and teachers there to organize a boycott of the event, is also scheduled to speak at Rocky Mountain College’s commencement this spring. Continue Reading →
Stay Away, Joe, by Dan Cushman, Viking Press, 1953. 249 pages. Price: Whatever you can find it for.
I first read “Stay Away, Joe” back in 1974. It was assigned as part of an English class at the University of Montana, a class that I think was called “Cowboys and Indians: Literature of Red and White,” or something very close to that. Continue Reading →
Because she splits her time between Billings and Cooke City, Deb Myers has firsthand knowledge of the different ways people deal with adversity in rural and urban settings. Continue Reading →
Nearly 13 years after it was proposed, a pedestrian bridge over the railroad tracks in downtown Billings might finally be built this summer.
Chris Hertz, an engineer with the city’s Public Works Department, expects to call for construction bids by mid-May, which would mean beginning construction in mid-June. Continue Reading →
Opponents of a non-discrimination ordinance are so eager to continue discriminating against certain people that they couldn’t even wait for the proposed ordinance to be drafted.
That’s why they showed up last week when the City Council heard a request for a $25,000 donation to help fund a national conference that will be held in Billings this summer to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Not In Our Town movement. Continue Reading →
Five people who were delegates to the 1972 Montana Constitutional Convention filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the state Supreme Court candidacy of Lawrence J.C. VanDyke.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in District Court in Helena, argues that VanDyke is not qualified to run for the high court because he has not been admitted to practice law in Montana for as long as required by the Montana Constitution. Continue Reading →
Ron May and Ed Riesinger are standing in a storeroom at Central Christian Church, surrounded by thousands of books.
Some of the books are in plastic milk crates or open cardboard boxes. Many more are packed in boxes that tower high overhead. Continue Reading →
