AltWeeklies Wire
"I'm not scared. I have a gun."new
Brice Harper fatally shot the unarmed husband of the woman he was seeing. Montana law made sure he was never charged.
Missoula Independent |
Jamie Rogers |
01-31-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Montana Gun Laws
Don't Read Thisnew
Banned Book Week highlights history of challenges.
Missoula Independent |
Mike Gerrity |
09-29-2012 |
Civil Liberties
Kick-Start My Artnew
In a society in which the axe often falls first on arts funding during a down economy, many artists wonder whether contributions from Kickstarter are telling them something different about support for the arts.
Missoula Independent |
Erika Fredrickson |
06-26-2012 |
Art
The Legacy of the Poisoned Clark Forknew
Montana’s rivers, any fly-fisher will tell you, are everything a real river should be. Not the upper Clark Fork. Not yet, anyhow.
Missoula Independent |
Brad Tyer |
10-07-2011 |
Environment
A Grizzly Comebacknew
Are grizzlies ready to come off the endangered species list?
Missoula Independent |
Alex Sakariassen |
05-31-2011 |
Environment
Tags: Endangered Species, Grizzly Bears
Stepping Outnew
Why "boringly normal" families are waging an extraordinary legal fight for equality.
Missoula Independent |
Jessica Mayrer |
03-16-2011 |
LGBT
It's Not Easy Going Greennew
The University of Montana's goal of carbon neutrality by 2020 may sound great, but key elements of its plan could prove problematic.
Missoula Independent |
Erika Fredrickson |
08-09-2010 |
Environment
Tags: University of Montana
DirecTV Call Center Charged With Union Bustingnew
In 2005, a multi-million dollar incentive package of county, state and federal funds successfully lured DirecTV to Missoula. Now, the facility that was supposed to provide a boost to the local economy has been charged with illegally firing an employee who wanted to improve working conditions at the call center.
Missoula Independent |
Matthew Frank |
04-20-2010 |
Business & Labor
Cap and Trade-off: Baucus Compromises on Climate Change, Toonew
Sen. Max Baucus' critics condemned him for taking millions from the health care industry as he led the effort to reform it. Now critics are voicing the same refrain over climate change legislation.
Missoula Independent |
Matthew Frank |
12-09-2009 |
Environment
Gassed Up: Study Shows Montana's Emissions Have Jumped 36 Percentnew
Environment America, a national conservation group, announced last week that Montana has had a 36 percent jump in carbon dioxide emissions between 1990 and 2007. The state's increase dwarfs the average 19-percent rise across the nation and, since 2004, only Oklahoma's emissions grew faster than Montana's.
Missoula Independent |
Jessica Mayrer |
11-24-2009 |
Environment
Social Networking for Foodiesnew
Veggie Trader connects more than 7,000 local growers from all 50 states for all sorts of locavore trading.
Missoula Independent |
Ari Le Vaux |
09-17-2009 |
Food+Drink
The Natural Burial Eco-Trend Reaches Montananew
Every year, traditional burials put an estimated 30 million board feet of casket wood, 1.6 million tons of concrete from burial vaults, more than 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid and 90,000 tons of steel from caskets into the ground. Whatever happened to naturally returning to the earth?
Missoula Independent |
Skylar Browning |
09-17-2009 |
Environment
A Mutant Protein Has Invaded Much of the World's Dairy Supplynew
While most dairy companies, trade groups and government agencies consider it harmless, a growing body of research implicates A1 beta-casein in diabetes, heart disease, autism and schizophrenia.
Missoula Independent |
Ari Le Vaux |
09-11-2009 |
Food+Drink
Is it Time to Reconsider Our Relationship With Milk?new
Mammals are named after their milk-producing glands, developed as a way to feed babies, but only humans continue drinking mammary secretions after infancy -- and no other species drinks the milk of another. Today, dairy consumption is at the center of several interconnected social, economic and health crises.
Missoula Independent |
Ari Le Vaux |
08-18-2009 |
Food+Drink
In Health Care Battle, Two Opposing Views of Sen. Max Baucus Emergenew
Is the Montana Democrat the sellout the left portrays, or the savvy centrist poised to finally reform American health care?
Missoula Independent |
Matthew Frank |
08-18-2009 |
Politics
