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Billings and Eastern Montana News & Culture
Billings, MT
Joined September 2013
Awful to see Lee lay off so many talented MT reporters. If any reporters are looking to start their own thing, the Last Best News brand (and social media accounts and photo library) are available. For free to the right person/idea. Message @BearTycoon if interested
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I've been blogging about a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Bulgaria and Latvia and it occurred to me that I ought to be promoting it on Twitter. So here you go. https://t.co/MyruRXtrQS
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On the last day of Last Best News, Ed Kemmick has some people to thank. https://t.co/RevkXboDAJ
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Brian Dillon reviews Rick Bass's new book, an account of his travels into the kitchens of some of his literary heroes and mentors. https://t.co/8k45QUuZnV
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With ever more precise ways of predicting the weather literally at our fingertips, Linda Halstead Acharya wonders whatever happened to feeling, sensing the weather. https://t.co/OJHfAUHiq8
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In words and photos, from his home in the shadow of the Beartooth Mountains, Dan Burkhart pays homage to a gloriously green spring. https://t.co/IbXxjEJVOR
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The Beartooth Electric Co-operative is preparing to offer its members a chance to get involve in renewable energy by investing in a community solar array. https://t.co/cr3sSckniB
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In her final BugBytes column for Last Best News, Marian Kirst Lyman looks at some creatures that are, by bug standards, some fairly solicitous parents. https://t.co/x6BtHiDaAD
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Ed Kemmick takes a close look at the need for an new online newspaper in Billings, and how an online newspaper in Missoula is pointing the way forward. https://t.co/n8hFGynncr
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Jim Elliott doesn't blame Republicans for wanting to cut Medicare; it's been a goal of theirs for decades. He just wishes they'd be upfront about their reasons for doing so. https://t.co/Kpr3AHGhCs
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In Voices from the Valley, Sherri Cornett talks with Mehmet "Mo" Casey, a native of Baghdad who came to the U.S. on a Fulbright Scholarship to teach Arabic at Rocky Mountain College and now works with international students at MSU Billings. https://t.co/nplP80vtY3
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After four and a half years, Last Best News is calling it quits. Read all about it. https://t.co/pNax8cePy7
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How can you say Democrats have no immigration plan? S. 744 got 68 Senate votes in 2013, including all Dems and 14 Republicans. House Republicans refused to consider.
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Evan Barrett wonders if we can work our way back to a time when people of differing opinions engaged in rational, reasonable debate. https://t.co/YWy9cHQJWR
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A lot of Montanans are wondering why, all these years into the Bakken oil boom, North Dakota seems to be reaping most of the benefits while Montana bears most of the burden of disposing of hazardous oilfield wastes, including radioactive waste. https://t.co/zV5LYZ9REv
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A building that sits on the oldest block in Billings — and which once housed the old Western Bar on Minnesota Avenue — has been purchased and will be turned into apartments. https://t.co/xw7lTdHtGj
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Though not eager to leave Montana, Denise Juneau is excited by the prospect of leading Seattle Public Schools. https://t.co/i4jlsuk3tm
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