Oct

26

New Montana Blogs

October 26, 2008 | 1 Comment

Montana Gael is devoted to “Poetry, art, and news about the Montana Irish diaspora, with literary musings, a Celtic events calendar, and other brilliant links.” With Montana’s long & celebrated history of all things Irish, this is bound to be a great blog!
Kirsten In Montana features the tagline “Dropping out of corporate America and dropping [...]

Oct

17

Tim Montana on Letterman

October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This is cool: Tim Montana, a country/rock musician who grew up in & around Butte, will appear on “The Late Show with David Letterman” tonight (Friday, October 17) to perform his song “Butte, America.”
Tim landed the gig on after he met Letterman while he (Letterman) was vacationing at his Choteau ranch.
More Montanans on [...]

Oct

15

Billings “Street View” on Google Maps

October 15, 2008 | 1 Comment

This is cool: Google Maps now offers Street Views of Billings! As far as I know, Billings is the only Montana community to get this treatment so far.

Oct

13

Montana’s October Snow

October 13, 2008 | 3 Comments

The snowstorm that walloped Montana was newsworthy enough to be mentioned on the cable news networks:

Usually our dramatic weather just doesn’t rate coverage, probably because we don’t have a lot of people. Chicago gets hit with a few inches of snow, or Boston temps drop below zero, and it’s trumpeted in all major outlets. But [...]

Oct

7

Big Sky Blogs

October 7, 2008 | 2 Comments

Just a reminder: there’s a whole lotta bloggers here in Montana; here’s the current roster of all of the Big Sky Bloggers that I know of! Please let me know of anyone that I have missed, and keep me posted of new bloggers. If you ever run out of blogs to read, come [...]

Oct

2

Montana in Pres/VP Debates

October 2, 2008 | 3 Comments

It’s interesting that Montana has been mentioned in both of the debates so far, albeit only indirectly tonight.
Last week, during the Presidential debate between John McCain & Barack Obama, McCain referenced the bear DNA study in Montana as an example of government waste and pork-barrel spending.
In tonight’s VP debate between Sarah Palin and Joe [...]

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