This city boasts more than 400 acres of parks, many of which line the roaring Clark Fork River. Recently, they have become full of homeless people. Some 600 people without homes live in the Northern Rockies college town, triple the number of a decade ago, many of them in tents in city parks. Their presence […]
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Montana’s TikTok ban has hurt some businesses
Keri Williams wouldn’t have her business without TikTok. She launched The Branded Pinto, her custom hat shop, about two years ago after a video she shared of one of her creations “blew up” on TikTok. Nearly all of her business still comes from the platform. But earlier this week, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a […]
“Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski Transferred To Medical Facility
The man known as the “Unabomber” has been transferred to a federal prison medical facility in North Carolina after spending the past two decades in a federal Supermax prison in Colorado for a series of bombings targeting scientists. Theodore Kaczynski, 79, was moved to the U.S. Bureau of Prison’s FMC Butner medical center in eastern […]
Governor Signs Bill To Protect His State’s 2nd Amendment Rights
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a bill into law Friday that’s intended to protect gun owners in the state from any new federal regulations or bans on firearms. “Today, I proudly signed Rep. [Jedediah] Hinkle’s law prohibiting federal overreach into our Second Amendment-protected rights, including any federal ban on firearms,” Gianforte, a Republican, wrote on […]
GOP Using Tax Payer Money To Fix Special Election
Montana Republicans are demanding the state spend $750,000 it didn’t budget to avoid what the GOP sees as a potential political catastrophe: high voter turnout in an upcoming special election. The state didn’t plan for spending on federal elections in 2017, and for good reason. Neither senator is running until 2018, and its lone House […]
This school staged a ‘Color Wars’ pep rally… You won’t believe what happens next!
“Color Wars” was always supposed to be a way to promote school spirit and good-natured competition between classes at Polson High School in Montana. On its surface, the concept is simple: Each class gets assigned a color — black for seniors, white for juniors, blue for sophomores, green for freshmen — and the class with the most […]