east of billings

Senator Dan Salomon, a Montana legislator from Ronan, “has never, been so mad”.  I read Sen. Salomon’s quote in an article about a bill proposed in the 2023 Montana Legislature that...

A couple of months ago, I was driving back from a hunting trip in southeast Montana and a billboard in Lockwood caught my eye. The text reads: Onward Pioneers. The photo...

Matt Rosendale says he is a rancher. He also says he is a straight shooter. I think, however, he might be a little confused as to what a rancher is and...

A friend of mine who ranches in eastern Montana asked me if I had seen a political commercial from Troy Downing attacking Senator Tester. I hadn’t. I looked it up and...

Once upon a time in land not so different than our own there was city built along a mighty iconic river with towering mountains to the west and never ending prairie...

Anyone who spends time on Facebook sees many different requests for help including raising money for a cause, voting in online contests, helping share and spread information and asking people to engage...

I started this website with a very specific purpose; to write to people in southeast Montana about the issues the media wasn’t covering regarding the Tongue River Railroad and Otter Creek...

Whether we like it or not Facebook is here to stay and will have an impact on our politics, for better or for worse. There is much to be said about...

In his last weeks as President of the United States, President Obama has been channeling some of the later work of John Dewey (1859 – 1952), American philosopher, educator and writer....

By now the demise of the Otter Creek mine is old news. I thought I should write something about it but I didn’t. Talking to a good friend a couple weeks...