The four dogs in Florida who died in a hot car while their owner was having lunch. The Ontario pup whose death was the second that his dog walker was responsible for. The one in Texas who succumbed to heatstroke after being left chained in 102-degree heat. With summer barely underway, PETA h…
Years after I learned my older son’s sexual orientation, I penned a 2017 blog post: “Queer is not a bad word.” Reflecting on my early parenting years, I wrote, “I wish I had known to look for LGBTQIA books. That acronym was not in my vocabulary back then, but acceptance, empathy, love, and t…
How many towns can stack up the huckleberries like Missoula at the start of summer?
Montana’s Districting and Apportionment Commission is asking for citizens to submit ideas and maps with proposed new Legislative district boundaries by July 15, so commissioners can incorporate suggested boundaries from the public into the maps in time for hearings in August in September. Th…
Waterlogged and muddy huckleberries to all the folks who pulled together during last week’s Yellowstone River flooding, enduring two days of catastrophic destruction with no loss of life or significant injury.
These days, the refrain has echoed to the groaning point of cliché: Newspapers are dying.
Two heaping handfuls of huckleberries to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and Lake County Commission to sweeten an historic agreement.
Here’s a fresh-filled growler of huckleberries to the pioneers of the Myrtle Street KettleHouse Brewing taproom.
This Memorial Day soaked in the blood of children demands a lesson from military history.
We’re delivering a spring jar of huckleberry jam to Arlee Public Schools Superintendent Mike Perry on behalf of his colleagues who named him Western Region Superintendent of the Year this week.
An elderly friend voiced her worries last week: Grocery bill going up, newspaper subscription going up, fixed income staying fixed like a pair of cement shoes. She turned off her idling car as she spoke — the price of gas has risen fastest as inflation rules the attention span.
Commemorative huckleberries to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes as they assume management of the Bison Range in a public celebration this weekend. Approved with bipartisan support in Congress, signed by former President Donald Trump and celebrated with a special visit by Interior …
A mortarboard cap full of Huckleberries to the more than 1,900 graduating University of Montana students who will receive their degrees this Saturday.
When asked for thoughts about his retirement last week, Missoulian Publisher Jim Strauss started off with regrets.
Thirty-one thousand six hundred and seventy-two huckleberries to the voters who cast mail ballots in this week’s Missoula-area school elections. Add a heaping handful of hucks to the technician who spent Tuesday evening scrambling to keep the vote-tabulating machines running, to be shared wi…
A group of high school students visited the Russell Smith Federal Courthouse last week, and probably came away better educated than many state legislators.
Sometimes it takes a long time for huckleberries to mature. This week, the University of Montana got to celebrate its first improvement in freshmen enrollment numbers in a decade — a 30% jump over last year’s. Plus, UM saw a 7% increase in the number of freshmen moving on to sophomore studie…
Here’s a heaping Earth Day helping of our favorite fruit to all those helpers who’ve volunteered to clean up the Clark Fork River around Missoula. In a counterintuitive twist, we can take pride in the decline of exotic, lucrative discoveries by bank-combers and snorkelers prowling for trash …
Cramped chokecherries to the Montana State Legislature’s dismantling of local government. New laws prevent cities and counties from addressing housing shortages and local health authorities from protecting their communities. In Missoula, losing the capability to adjust zoning rules to reflec…
A flagon of huckleberries to the brewmasters who teamed up on the recipe for Last Best Pale Ale, made entirely of Montana barley, hops, and malt.
During the Battle of Bến Tre in the Vietnam War, an American Army major made the observation “it became necessary to destroy the town to save it.”
Past-due chokecherries to Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks for prompting a lawsuit over slow response to six records requests on wolf-hunting deliberations. Wolves of the Rockies and Trap Free Montana seek communications from game wardens in a case of possibly illegal wolf-hu…
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Huckleberries to the proposal for 240 new homes near Hellgate Elementary School, and chokecherries to the Lolo National Forest for appealing the Soldier-Butler landscape project in the Ninemile drainage.
A Missoula business owner once griped to a Missoulian editor: “Don’t your reporters know how to turn left?”
March Madness Huckleberries for all the University of Montana Grizzly fans who will be rooting for the Montana State University Bobcats on their Friday appearance as the No. 14 seed in the NCAA basketball tournament. With hometown pride sustained by a Grizzly win over the Cats at the Feb. 27…
Congratulatory huckleberries to the high school basketball teams from western Montana who made it through the divisional playoffs last week.
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for western Montana sports fans, on both the local and world stages.
Legislation in some red states seeks to roll back vaccination requirements not just for the coronavirus but for any other disease.
Jan. 6, 2021, the day a mob of Donald Trump loyalists carried out an insurrection against the Capitol, is etched in the minds of Americans. No doubt historians will memorialize that terrible, ugly day as a nadir in American democracy, a moment of shame that indelibly scarred the nation.
The opening of the new David J. Thatcher Veterans Affairs Clinic and the Poverello Center’s purchase of the Clark Fork Inn mark a big week for veterans’ care.