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Opinion: Heart advice
I’ve run into quite a few friends and readers since I had my double bypass heart surgery and I thought I’d share s…
Opinion: Bowled over
So I was eating some ice cream out of a cat dish the other night.
Opinion: St. Mary Surprises
So with a long weekend we decided to go to St. Mary in Glacier National Park and see what we could see.
Opinion: Cutting weight?
There was a bright red spot of blood in the track and I wondered how the fox had gotten the injury.
Get 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.
Opinion: Lucky duck
A bald eagle snatched dinner right in front of us. By the time I got the camera out of the chest bag the eagle was half flying, half swimming with the duck thr…
Opinion: Gassed
With the weather ready to take a turn I figured I better quit hiking in the woods for a weekend or two and cut some firewood.
Opinion: Rolling under the stars
So on Saturday we didn’t have much time, so the boy and I went out into the Badger Two Medicine area south of Glacier National Park.
Opinion: Testing tents in lousy weather
We’ve been going through tents this summer, which Is to say we’re testing our third one.
Opinion: A tight spot
One of my favorite films of all time is “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” starring George Clooney.
Opinion: Moose moments
So I got up early on Sunday morning just in case the moose was out there, you know, in the lake.
Following the ‘leader’
A spectacular picture recently appeared on social media of a young lady in Arizona.
A night not to forget
What a beautiful day I said and it was: Clear and cold and not a breath of wind … Jan. 27, 1968.
The Klan in Montana
History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Patterns and cycles seem to repeat over time.
CFAC promises to be a dump forever
So I’ve sat through hours of meetings on the Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. cleanup and read through hundreds of pages of documents and I’ve come to the following conclusion: It will always be a dump of some sort or a…
Hertz on reappraisals
Property tax appraisals are currently arriving in the mail. It’s important to review the valuation and appeal it if you do not agree with the valuation. The appeal instructions are in the letter that was mailed to …