25 Apr 2011
Posted by Shane Castle Several candidates on Helena School District's May 3 election ballot claim to have no political agenda despite their clear connections to a conservative political organization that started solely to sway this election. Background Incumbents Aidan Myhre and Cherche Prezeau face challenges from...
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Posted by Shane Castle The Billings Gazette, discussing the lawsuit against the Helena School District (see lead story), cites Sharon Nason as one of the three litigants -- Helena Youth Advocates' founder Mikal Wilkerson is another -- in this suit who has never sued anyone before. The Gazette also said all three claimed...
Read more → 25 Apr 2011
Posted by Shane Castle I use only first names in this story to protect the privacy of the minors involved. When she first started high school, Jolene was reticent to talk about her deep interest in the paranormal. Like most people, she was a little concerned that her peers would be too judgmental and might ostracize...
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Posted by Sam Lavin Like many Americans, I brush my teeth twice daily and whenever the situation calls for it. I know what it is like to get to the end of a tube of toothpaste and think, “Why, oh why, does my husband have to squeeze from the middle of the tube instead of the end?” Then I scrape it all to the front where...
Read more → 25 Apr 2011
Posted by Shane Castle 
To open a small business off the beaten path sounds gutsy. To limit 95 percent of your product line to arts and crafts made by people in one of the least populous states sounds pretty risky. To collaborate with your competitors so you don't step on anyone's toes sounds kind of far-fetched. ...
Read more → 18 Apr 2011
Posted by Shane Castle Walking around the Archie Bray Foundation's acres, one is reminded that anything we make out of soil will only be witnessed for a brief moment in history and then slowly reclaimed by the land. Almost anywhere you step, chunks of red clay brick and various potsherds lie tamped into the earth. Mounds...
Read more → 17 Apr 2011
Posted by Sam Lavin This week I wasn’t buying any seam rippers even though maybe I should have because the one I bought last week is super dull and doesn't cut a piece of thread as purported. But I was about town and happened across some banana implements that are…well, they just are. For your consideration, the Banana...
Read more → 17 Apr 2011
Posted by Sven B. I always thought there was an unwritten rule that said you could put up a giant sign to advertise something but that, if you put that sign up, the advertised thing better damn well exist. Apparently I was just imagining it because last week I came across this sign for the Mobile City Home Park at the corner...
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