Man-caused climate change is not just about a gradually warming planet or extreme weather events, it’s also about increasing health emergences for everyone…
From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/16/from-cholera-to-kidney-disease-10-ways-the-climate-crisis-is-wrecking-peoples-lives-acc? mosquitoes, ticks, disease, illness, death
When our local news aggregator site — the Montana Independent News — writes its own local news the articles tend to be biased and unprofessionally written, such as a recent pro-STR piece…
The Montana Independent New article let realtors repeat the nonsense that Red Lodge would suffer with restrictions on short-term rentals, and that tourists would stop...
News about short-term rentals Red Lodge should consider…
From Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2023/10/18/bozeman-votes-to-ban-some-short-term-rentals-grandfathers-others/? Montana has an affordable housing crisis, and Red Lodge is no exception. We need to stop being simply a playground...
Planning fail in Red Lodge: “Alpine Basin” subdivision coming online on edge of town, offering cookie-cutter homes and several negatives…
So much for affordable housing. 60 cookie-cutter homes for sale for $739,000, or so, fronting on a very busy highway (on a section that is...
A Carbon County local, on Facebook, recently ranted about alternative lifestyles being “in your face” and all over the news, perhaps he should ask Republican politicians to stop obsessing about culture wars, which keeps those issues in the news…
Besides being fascist and immoral, those culture wars are bad politics. From rollcall.com: https://rollcall.com/2023/03/31/republicans-fixation-on-trans-issues-could-backfire-pollsters-say/ fascism, pseudo-Christian, intolerance, try live and let live
“Western resort towns being loved to death”: Red Lodge (and many similar towns in our region), are you listening?…
A good read, from High Country News: https://www.hcn.org/articles/south-economy-western-resort-towns-risk-being-loved-to-death? Gardiner, Montana, Colorado, Headwaters Economics, many places not meant for so many people, overtourism
The Republican approach to every problem seems to be the same: prohibit people and communities from deciding what’s best for themselves — the affordable housing crisis is no different (of course, no mention of not advertising Montana, anymore)…
From Montana Free Press: https://montanafreepress.org/2023/05/10/how-the-montana-legeislature-tried-to-tackle-housing-crunch/? There are simply too many people in Montana now. Our environment and infrastructure is suffering because of too many people....
A good read here on the Achilles heel of the anti-trans, anti-democracy, anti-freedom & anti-science fascist agenda of the Republican Party in states like Montana…
From The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/172559/republicans-anti-trans-assault-achilles-heel? Zooey Zephyr, John Fuller, Jerod & Joshua Hughes, fascism, Christo-fascism, white supremacy, right-wing extremism
Yep…
Thanks to Nick Anderson. gun violence epidemic, NRA terrorist organization, no other country has such gun violence, so much for GOP/Republicans being "pro-life," Montana has...