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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.
Bryan W. Knicely, most recently the executive director the Evansville (Indiana) Museum of Arts, History & Science, has been chosen as the new executive director of the Yellowstone Art Museum In Billings. Continue Reading →
If you are like a lot of Montanans, your primary healthcare provider is an advanced practice clinician, not a doctor. But under Montana law that same clinician may not be able to provide an abortion, a safe and common medical procedure. Continue Reading →
Since SCRaP Billings was founded in the fall of 2015, it has made some major moves — conceptually and physically.
In November 2016 the creative-reuse store and arts-education hub moved from South 29th Street into a two-story, 21,000-square-feet brick warehouse at Montana Avenue and North 18th Street. Barely a month ago, it started leasing a second building, a block away, the SCRaP Creative Annex, with 6,000 square feet, at 1702 First Ave. N. Continue Reading →
After a year of deepening political division on race and immigration, the defeat of a white, four-term incumbent by a black former refugee in Helena, Montana’s capital city, continues to draw national and international attention. In November, Wilmot Collins defeated Jim Smith by 338 votes, becoming the state’s first African-American mayor. Continue Reading →
Newspapers may be in their death throes, but they aren’t dying quietly. Continue Reading →
A big-hearted Billings woman attending school in Bozeman is organizing a Super Bowl Sunday fun run to raise money for a group that provides support for families with children diagnosed with cancer.
Megan Maynard, a 2014 graduate of Billings Senior High now majoring in exercise science with a pre-med focus at Montana State University, said she was inspired to organize the benefit by a friend of hers who is a pediatric cancer survivor. Continue Reading →
One of the favorite stunts of exhibition shooter Tom Frye was to shoot a bullet through the hole of a washer. A piece of tape placed over the hole beforehand quieted any naysayers. Continue Reading →
Winter ArtWalk 2018, the final event of ArtWalk Downtown Billings’ 23rd season, will be a celebration of cool art, cold weather, merriment, music and more. It will run from 5 to 9 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 2. Continue Reading →
Here’s another feather in our cap: In addition to incredible natural beauty, wide-open spaces and no congresspersons currently suspected of child molestation, Montana recently made the Top 10 list of “friendliest states online.”
That is according to a study that took into account the percentage of hostile comments per state, the relative number of people who have claimed online harassment and whether or not a state has anti-cyberbullying laws on the books. Continue Reading →
Montana is pretty cool. Montana is a state that values independence, hard work and rugged individualism. And there are a lot of things we get right. But, we need to not shut our eyes to the things we get wrong. Continue Reading →
