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Montana issues that affect us all: land, water, natural resources, extreme concentration of wealth that closes us out from our public land and hurts our communities.
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Force for Good (opens the original)
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“In the fall of 2014 I sent out my first email.”Twelve years ago, Jami Moody was asking for help to build Sheepherder Square, the town’s vision for a community center in Big Timber.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EZDU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1090417-e8fd-4dbd-9282-137ec5ad22ba_377x307.jpeg" targ
Anaconda and the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (opens the original)
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My friend Jack grew up in Anaconda, Montana. When he was 15 he hopped a train, heading for a better life somewhere out in Washington. Fifty years later, as a Jesuit priest made a little weaker by time and fate, he told me the story.He had grown up with the world’s largest free-standing masonry structure, the Anaconda smelter, in his backyard. He shared his childhood memories of what that smelter did, a romantic version of copper smelting designe
IAEA for AI (opens the original)
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In 1961, construction of the first Minuteman facilities began in Great Falls, Montana, putting Montana in the center of the nuclear weapons arms race. The technology was so powerful, the world established a new system of global governance to handle it, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA).The government gave its reasons to construct<spa
Elk and the equinox (opens the original)
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It’s that time of year. Hunting season. Some of my friends helicoptered into a piece of BLM ground surrounded by the Wilks brothers to tromp around hunting elk in the Little Snowies.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EM7E!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-p
Two kinds of dumb (opens the original)
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It’s time for Montana to take a page out of the Hoosier state’s regulatory play book to deal with the kind of dumb that’s in our living room right now:“Look, mister, there’s... two kinds of dumb, uh... guy that gets naked and runs out in the snow and barks at the moon, and, uh, guy who does the same thing in my living room. First one don’t matter, the second one you’re kinda forced to deal with.”Indiana’s utility, Nort
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