Monthly Archive For: September 2024

Business Monthly

The 2024 Agriculture Issue

Montana's above-average winter wheat and hay harvests were a bright spot for Flathead Valley farmers growing more reliant on landowners to lease property for production as developers gobble up open space; plus, Market Metrics and Financial Corner

Out of Bounds

So it Begins

I’m off to my usual slow start in the earliest weeks of hunting season. Upland birds opened in many states on Sept. 1, but I don’t usually hunt much early in the season. My day job is teaching, and September is the busiest month of the year. Also, I’ve lived the majority of my life […]

Continental Divides

Getting Off to a Rocky Start

Whether it's misprinting names, party affiliations, voting districts — or, in Montana’s case, delisting a candidate because of a computer glitch — ballot blunders can and do occur during every election cycle

Bone-cracking Good

12:12 a.m. A man with suspected radiation poisoning wanted to discuss it with the FBI. 5:21 a.m. A woman woke up to her husband threatening to flush his wedding ring down the toilet.   8:40 a.m. A few houses in Kalispell were egged overnight. 9:13 a.m. A naked man was pushing a refrigerator down the […]