AltWeeklies Wire
Run for the Border!new
Americans have always been resourceful people. We support our troops and trample perceived threats to our freedoms. We count our blessings, we discount gay marriage, we recount our votes -- and when all that counting doesn’t quite add up the way we’d hoped, well, we can always go to Canada.
Missoula Independent |
Independent staff |
12-16-2004 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Political Pinocchios: Weapons of Mass Deception Returnnew
A secret Pentagon propaganda program that would have disseminated disinformation to the world as part of America’s “defense” strategy was supposed to have been killed three years ago. But now it’s back.
Missoula Independent |
George Ochenski |
12-16-2004 |
Commentary
Profit or Dienew
Greyhound has already slashed rural service in Montana; is Amtrak next?
Missoula Independent |
Mike Keefe-Feldman |
12-16-2004 |
Policy Issues
High and Drynew
Wyoming's distaff Faulkner returns to home turf.
Missoula Independent |
John Freeman |
12-09-2004 |
Fiction
Still Ranting After All These Yearsnew
Spoken-word firebrand Jello Biafra is the punk man's Noam Chomsky.
Missoula Independent |
Andy Smetanka |
12-09-2004 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Jerking a Roundnew
So you've bagged your deer. Now it's jerky time.
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
12-09-2004 |
Food+Drink
Double Cross?new
When 12 Missoula radiologists declined to sign a contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield, the state’s largest health care insurer called the doctors a monopoly and sued for antitrust violations. What are the Blues really after?
Missoula Independent |
Keila Szpaller |
12-09-2004 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Mistaken Identitynew
Montana went for Bush, but elected its first Democratic governor in 16 years. Washington pundits see a hunter/environmentalist split, but it just doesn't exist.
Missoula Independent |
George Ochenski |
12-09-2004 |
Commentary
Montana's Silent Voices of HIV/AIDS speak out.new
Five Missoula women living with AIDS, in their own words.
Missoula Independent |
Charles Finn |
12-09-2004 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
The X Factornew
Montana's House District 12 legislative race is officially tied at 1,559 votes apiece. How the state settles the tie will determine the balance of power in the Montana state house.
Missoula Independent |
Mike Keefe Feldman |
12-09-2004 |
Politics
Liming the Goatnew
Soaking goat meat in lime juice will rid it of that gamy smell.
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
12-02-2004 |
Food+Drink
Smelling a RATnew
Like a diseased rodent in a shipping container, a very nasty little RAT -- the acronym for the new Recreation Access Tax -- was slipped into the federal Omnibus Spending Bill as a rider last weekend and the consequences are not pretty, especially for those of us living in the West.
Missoula Independent |
George Ochenski |
12-02-2004 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Castrating Alfienew
The original is a classic, and for good reason. Michael Caine’s seduction artist was a heel and a creep -- one who finds no redemption in the end. Conversely, there is no darkness in this version that a few sessions with a decent therapist and the right woman couldn't fix.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
11-18-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Alfie, Charles Shyer
Estronautsnew
None of the women in these pages are famous adventuresses. Among their number are a bookseller, a forest service employee, a human rights worker and a kindergarten teacher -- and all share a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of solitude.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
11-18-2004 |
Nonfiction
Critical Conditionnew
Anyone who's read Dead Elvis and Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung has read way too much music journalism. Neal Pollack has read way too much music journalism.
Missoula Independent |
Brad Tyer |
11-18-2004 |
Fiction
