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6 feet and beyond: That would be Wilde
What happens when you clear 5 feet, 6 inches in the high jump as a high school senior?
Iran: The Middle East mastermind with the matches
I have a boyhood memory of the blockbuster award-winning movie Exodus, staring a young Paul Newman as the leader of Jewish refugees and Palestinian Jews in the…
Holland Lake fish deserve clean water
Bull trout in Holland Lake are unique yet vulnerable. Holland Lake harbors a "disjunct" core area population of bull trout, meaning that bull trout spawn in Holland Creek and mature in Holland Lake rather than migr…
Returning Montana education back to the basics
As a Republican candidate for Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction, I have a simple, but clear vision for our schools: I want to bring education back to basics.
Letters to the editor Nov. 5
Letters to the editor Nov. 5
Head to the polls and make your vote count
Looking over the ballots for Tuesday’s election we are impressed with the number of candidates looking to serve their communities through public office.
We can LEARN to save lives
According to federal mortality data, suicide in the U.S. hit an all-time high in 2022. In Montana, the state with the second-highest suicide rate in the country, it increased 42% from 2011 to 2021.
Column: Musings of an aging sports editor
On March 10, 2010, I and former fellow Missoulian sports writer Nick Lockridge found ourselves at Tiny’s Tavern in Billings.
Letters to the editor Nov. 2
Letters to the editor Nov. 2
PSC’s $100 million rate heist?
As the first snow is falling, and freezing temperatures hit, we are getting pummeled with another huge energy rate increase, thanks to the five Republicans on the Montana Public Service Commission.
Letters to the editor Oct. 31
Letters to the editor Oct. 31
Whitefish responds to inflammatory rhetoric
In his letter to the editor (Class action suit against Whitefish moves forward, Oct. 26) Paul Gillman made numerous misrepresentations of fact and even went so far as to publicly disparage a city of Whitefish emplo…
Letters to the editor Oct. 30
Letters to the editor Oct. 30
Senate wasting time not responding to Hamas attacks
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. In the words of President Ronald Reagan, “We should all recognize these deeds make so evident the bestial na…
A productive legislative session for hunters and landowners
Hunting season has arrived! As hunters flock to the hills in pursuit of Montana’s treasured big game species, we want to take a moment to acknowledge the good …
Tech hub designation is great news for Montana
The recent announcement that Western Montana has been selected as a federally-designated technology hub is great news for our state.