On Monday, more than 100 people showed up at the Capitol in Helena to protest and to testify against proposed cuts to the Department of Public Health and Human Services. These cuts could directly impact the lives of developmentally disabled...
Montana History Conference looks at a time of trouble and change One hundred years ago, the nation was at war, and Montanans answered the call. In Montana in 1917, two-thirds of the people here were either immigrants or children of...
We Get By With a Little Help From Our Friends It’s been a rough fire season for Montana. We’ve had more than 1,500 fires. And depending on the source, they’ve burned somewhere between 937 and 1,380 square miles. Basically, we’re...
“Your kids, our future!” The Big Sky Country Fair is a gift to Montana kids. When we entered the fairgrounds, we could see the rides popping out from behind buildings. All the children beelining towards them seem to become a...
Our Next Generation Montana’s kids are revolutionizing our state. They’re going to solve the problems of the future, but they’re also finding the solutions to today’s. They’re the most innovative, inspired, tech-savvy people we know. It’s important we acknowledge their...
What my mother taught me We live in an unkind age. Of that, there is little doubt when we look at our politics, our online ranting and our failure to look away from screens long enough to have an actual...
Hard Work, Ambition, and Community I’ve lived in Montana my entire life, and the first thing from Montana I ever heard mentioned on TV was Butte. It was mispronounced (as “Butt, Montana”), but it still was on television. I was...
The stories of a strong ranching community in Eastern Montana Photographs and Writing by: August L. Schield Just above the 47th parallel, directly east of the Musselshell River, the wide open prairie landscape of Garfield County has only received two...
The Lodgepole Complex Fire is the state’s largest fire to date. As of Monday, July 31, it had spread to 270,723 acres. Fortunately, the fires are now over 93 percent contained. Unfortunately, the fight to recover is far from over....
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