Columns
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Northern Pike: Love or hate?
Before we get full time into outdoor columns about hunting, let me do a final end-of-summer column about fishing.
MCCULLERS COLUMN: The work never ends for Montana ADs
Plenty of words aptly describe the jobs of activities directors at Montana high schools.
A new map for the New World
A community editor gets a plentiful amount of press releases from a wide swath of agencies, organizations, private companies, public entities and so forth.
Gov. Bullock lurches leftward on way to Iowa
Montana’s two-term Democratic governor will be looking for a new job in 2020, and Steve Bullock may have signaled last week that he envisions a future where the Mexican border will be more important to him than the…
Months after Montana visit, Golden Knights take sports world by storm
Whitefish businessman- turned-hockey team owner Bill Foley came to the Flathead Valley last August with a simple goal — to turn Montana into “Golden Knights country.”
News flash: Swedes are meatball marauders
They’re calling it an “Abbasolute scandal.”
Socialism, bribery and the death of the republic
The day I wrote this column, I had a conversation with a local businessman who told me, in all earnestness, “I have a hard time finding employees who want to work.”
The more voices, the better
It’s become increasingly easy to malign ESPN over the past few years.
Can Kanye West lead a rebellion for black voters?
Two weeks ago, I wrote about Diamond and Silk, the black political commentary duo who have been deemed dangerous for the most peculiar of reasons — they are black AND conservative!
Inane rule yields unnecesary consequences for Stillwater
It’s rather inconspicuous, even slotted near the top of what seems like a full-length book of MHSA bylaws.
Pa. sheriff takes on NRA boycotters
BUTLER, Pa. — A Western Pennsylvania sheriff has issued an order within his department to not conduct county sheriff business with any of the corporations that have decided to cut ties with members of the National …
'The times, they are a changin' for retail
It’s been a week of big business news in the Flathead, topped by the looming closure of our spacious, refurbished Herberger’s store in Kalispell Center Mall. A lot of friends in my age group are lamenting the loss.
Finally, a truly bipartisan issue: We all hate robocalls
A funny thing happened on the way to this week’s column — Sen. Jon Tester did something I liked.
LeBron's time to make his case is running ever shorter
It seems borderline blasphemous to even speak of such a day now, but the time will come when LeBron James will cease to be the LeBron James we’ve become all too accustomed to seeing.
Are conservative black women really 'unsafe' to hear? Or just on Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg may be a master of the universe, but there are two things even he shouldn’t have done — one, allowing Facebook users’ private information to be shared with Cambridge Analytica, and two, getting on t…
For Montana's Ferrington, a race worth running
Well over 1,000 marathons are held across the United States each year, but none rival the Boston Marathon in prestige.