The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for shooting and mortally wounding five wild horses in mid-November 2021 in Jakes Valley, about 30 miles west of Ely, Nevada. “The agency investigates and prosecutes the killings of wild horses as part of the BLM’s enforcement […]
AvA: Remember This Name: Rexanna Powers, Ph.D.
The spring before I moved to College Station to begin my sophomore year of college, I met someone who changed my life forever. It wasn’t a guy (that didn’t happen until AFTER I graduated with my bachelor’s degree and dropped out of grad school); no, it was a girl, Rexanna Powers (Rex), someone who now is one of my greatest […]
Farm & Food: ‘Funeral by Funeral, Theory Advances’
In 1970, Paul Samuelson became the first American awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The honor came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist because he had “simply rewritten considerable parts of economic theory.” True that. Samuelson had already written what would become the best-selling college textbook on the subject, Economics, – now translated into 45 languages – […]
MOTHER LODE THEATRE
The Mission of the Butte Center for the Performing Arts is to inspire, educate, and entertain audiences by providing the finest venue, Mother Lode Theatre, for the performing arts and a wide range of excellent and artistically significant programs. Mother Lode Theatre strives to create a safe, welcoming environment at the theatre for its audiences, artists, volunteers, and staff. We […]
Jefferson County Montana
Jefferson County has something for everyone; from rivers for floating and fishing, to hiking and climbing in the Elkhorn Mountain range, and a large motorized and non-motorized trail system. Boulder, High Ore and Basin are home to several radon health mines, ghost towns, Boulder Hot Springs and Whitehall hosts Frontier Days every July. The county fair is held in Boulder in August. […]
Ramblins: Pressure
Years back, my police officer friend told this tale at hunting camp, but unlike most imaginative campfire stories, this one might be true. It was the proverbial dark and stormy night when a young officer investigated a traffic accident where one car rear-ended another. The official report would have been a one-liner, but the roads were solid ice, but the […]