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ONE OF BUTTE, MONTANA'S oldest and most historic buildings is getting at least one more chance to find a way to keep standing. For 98 years, all the way until 1982, the 42-room downtown structure was an operating brothel. But since it quit providing the services it was built to offer, the Dumas B...

I'VE BEEN READING the news and it has left me with the following feeling: Make sure to take enough time TODAY to do those things really important to you. It seems too many of us spend too much of our time rushing through the day. We all have so many really important things we need to do before th...

MADE IN AMERICA. With the exception of many of us, it is tough to find something that can wear that label these days. As a result, it remains difficult finding a manufacturing job in America. According to an interesting article posted on MSNBC, the United States lost one third of its manufacturin...

COMMUNITIES seem to be a lot like the people who live in them - some are satisfied to let life happen to them while others take life's challenges on as personal challenges. Recent efforts by officials in Niagara Falls, N.Y. is a good example of a city thinking outside the box and looking for some...

DESPITE WHAT YOU may have read lately, the United States continues to be Number One - in a host of different ways. It would be easy to believe the United State is on its knees judging from much of what is being written these days. That simply is just not the case. Since it is the week of our Inde...

"If you ever, ever, dare to stop a grizzly bear, You will never meet another grizzly bear." Mary Austin.   I LIVE IN MONTANA, spent most of my life here. It comes as no surprise to me that grizzly bears can be downright mean. Big and mean. Those of us who have lived here long enough to understand...

IF YOU FEEL a bit better about real estate in America, you have good reason. Judging from recent surveys and reports, conditions are slowly improving. While everyone seems to agree the improvement will take time, there is a growing feeling that the worst is behind us. As far as I am concerned, th...

CASH STRAPPED CITIES are making it easier for you to get your message out - and giving you another venue to spend your advertising dollars on. Several cities in need of money are selling advertising space on manhole covers, fire hydrants and fire trucks, among other places. While the advertising ...

I HAVE A BURNING QUESTION: What are Forest Service officials thinking? Here in the West where large fires already are destroying thousands of acres and burning hundreds of homes, new rules imposed by the U.S. Forest service have left many asking the same question. It seems that under the new regu...

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it" ~ Russell Baker   IT SEEMS APPROPRIATE to me that the first day of summer comes on the longest day of the year - it gives us more time to enjoy it. Today, June 20, 2012 will last for 23 hours, 56 minutes and four seconds. Nope, not 2...