Darrell Ehrlick

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Downtown backers making best of a bad situation

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Editor’s note: The editors of Noise & Color, Billings’ independent monthly magazine of culture and entertainment, asked me to write them a piece expanding on my recent column about downtown Billings, and the intense reaction to a certain column about the downtown that appeared in the Billings Gazette. (more…) Continue Reading →

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Gazette boycott, however appealing, the wrong move

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A local businessman is organizing a campaign to get downtown businesses to drop all advertising with the Billings Gazette. The spark was a December column by Gazette Editor Darrell Ehrlick, who described some of the least savory aspects of downtown Billings. (more…) Continue Reading →

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House debate unlikely to have swayed many voters

If the purpose of a political debate is to change voters’ minds, then Monday’s U.S. House debate at Montana State University Billings was a clear draw. It’s hard to imagine that any minds changed after a debate in which Republican Ryan Zinke and Democrat John Lewis seemed to agree at least at often as they disagreed. (more…) Continue Reading →

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From the Outpost: On questions of grammar, to each their own?

We appear to be stumbling into another war in the Middle East. Pro football is buckling under the weight of its own violence. In Montana politics, the only issue appears to be whether Steve Daines wants to destroy the country overnight by gutting environmental laws or whether he is willing to wait a few decades for global warming to do the job. So let’s talk about grammar. (more…) Continue Reading →

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Goodbye to another Gazette reporter

Another Gazette colleague has joined the exodus. Jan Falstad’s last day was Friday and her final Have You Heard column — the last of some 840 columns — ran this morning on the Business page. Jan was a hell of a business reporter. She understood the nuts and bolts of finance and the stock market, but she was alive to the human aspect of every story, too. She made her column, which could have been a dry, narrow-interest feature, into a must-read piece that was one of the more popular parts of the Gazette week after week, year after year. Continue Reading →

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