From our Books and music section: The Courier is a well-done, true story Cold War spy thriller, worth a watch and see if you can catch the reference to Montana…
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Courier_(2020_film)
Carbon County (MT) is the eighth fastest growing county of Montana’s 56 counties, we can probably stop advertising ourselves…
Interesting article (if a bit confusing), with a good graphic on county growth rates, from Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2022/03/30/kalispell-growing-faster-than-bozeman-census-population/?
Aware of Gianforte administration’s push to have state government interfere in the lives of women, federal government gives family planning grant to nonprofit…
From Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2022/03/30/bozeman-nonprofit-to-take-over-montana-family-planning-program/
Whether Putin or Trump, criminals must be held accountable for their crimes…
From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/mar/30/vladimir-putin-ukraine-crime-aggression-philippe-sands?
Perhaps the biggest gaffe was the Trump presidency…
Thanks to Nick Anderson.
The Gilgamesh Project: on already overcrowded planet we should try and help people live forever?…
From WiseMovement: https://wisemovement.be/2019/07/19/the-gilgamesh-project/
The Koch Brothers have always placed money over morality, and over what’s best for the planet…
Thanks to Nick Anderson.
From our history section: Patient Zero for the “Spanish Flu” was a private at an Army base in Kansas, this month in 1918; according to Republicans the “Spanish Flu” should therefore be renamed the “United States Flu”…
It ended up being called the "Spanish flu" because the Spanish press did not suppress the story. From history.com: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-cases-reported-in-deadly-influenza-epidemic
Listen up U.S.: Europe is cracking down on the tremendous waste in so many things we buy, so that recyclability, durability and repairability become standard…
From the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60913226