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Last Best News
@LastBestNews
Billings and Eastern Montana News & Culture
Billings, MT
Joined September 2013
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Awful to see Lee lay off so many talented MT reporters.
If any reporters are looking to start their own thing, the Last Best News brand (and social media accounts and photo library) are available. For free to the right person/idea.
Message @BearTycoon if interested
@tedcruz By 1888 Douglass, a Republican, was warning that the Republican Party was treating the freed slave as “a deserted, a defrauded, a swindled outcast; in law, free; in fact, a slave; in law, a citizen; in fact, an alien; in law, a voter; in fact, a disfranchised man.”
I've been blogging about a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Bulgaria and Latvia and it occurred to me that I ought to be promoting it on Twitter. So here you go.
https://t.co/MyruRXtrQS
On the last day of Last Best News, Ed Kemmick has some people to thank.
https://t.co/RevkXboDAJ
Who to follow
Martin J. Kidston
@martinkidston
Founder of Missoula's daily news journal @missoulacurrent; USMC and Desert Storm vet; artist and author; general explorer, father of two, keeper of cats.
Larry Mayer
@BGMayer
Chief photographer for the @BillingsGazette in Billings, Montana
Tom Lutey
@TomLutey
Journalist. Montana Free Press. Your burro is an ass. Your burrow is a hole in the ground. Know the difference.
Brian Dillon reviews Rick Bass's new book, an account of his travels into the kitchens of some of his literary heroes and mentors.
https://t.co/8k45QUuZnV
With ever more precise ways of predicting the weather literally at our fingertips, Linda Halstead Acharya wonders whatever happened to feeling, sensing the weather.
https://t.co/OJHfAUHiq8
In words and photos, from his home in the shadow of the Beartooth Mountains, Dan Burkhart pays homage to a gloriously green spring.
https://t.co/IbXxjEJVOR
The Beartooth Electric Co-operative is preparing to offer its members a chance to get involve in renewable energy by investing in a community solar array.
https://t.co/cr3sSckniB
In her final BugBytes column for Last Best News, Marian Kirst Lyman looks at some creatures that are, by bug standards, some fairly solicitous parents.
https://t.co/x6BtHiDaAD
David Crisp picks up the news and goes home.
https://t.co/ZLEcX3F6VI
2 of Montana's best poets release new books
https://t.co/bG48FmxNFV
Ed Kemmick takes a close look at the need for an new online newspaper in Billings, and how an online newspaper in Missoula is pointing the way forward.
https://t.co/n8hFGynncr
Jim Elliott doesn't blame Republicans for wanting to cut Medicare; it's been a goal of theirs for decades. He just wishes they'd be upfront about their reasons for doing so.
https://t.co/Kpr3AHGhCs
In Voices from the Valley, Sherri Cornett talks with Mehmet "Mo" Casey, a native of Baghdad who came to the U.S. on a Fulbright Scholarship to teach Arabic at Rocky Mountain College and now works with international students at MSU Billings.
https://t.co/nplP80vtY3
@DuBray Backatchya!
After four and a half years, Last Best News is calling it quits. Read all about it.
https://t.co/pNax8cePy7
How can you say Democrats have no immigration plan? S. 744 got 68 Senate votes in 2013, including all Dems and 14 Republicans. House Republicans refused to consider.
Evan Barrett wonders if we can work our way back to a time when people of differing opinions engaged in rational, reasonable debate.
https://t.co/YWy9cHQJWR
A lot of Montanans are wondering why, all these years into the Bakken oil boom, North Dakota seems to be reaping most of the benefits while Montana bears most of the burden of disposing of hazardous oilfield wastes, including radioactive waste.
https://t.co/zV5LYZ9REv
A building that sits on the oldest block in Billings — and which once housed the old Western Bar on Minnesota Avenue — has been purchased and will be turned into apartments.
https://t.co/xw7lTdHtGj
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