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Have you ever bit into a chocolate bar and found a bug part? If not, you probably weren’t look ...
 
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When, exactly, did your family “start?” As impossible as it is to trace your own bloodli ...
 
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Hot off a 16th place finish at nationals last week, Spokane-based kayaker Jud Keiser performs one of ...
 
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Do you love America? If so, why aren’t you wearing a Mexican-made shirt that says so, setting ...
 
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Everyone who’s been involved in the environmental movement has seen it happen. Over the past 2 ...
 
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Long road ahead
Pay-at-the-pump clichés? Been there. Endless reports of ever-soaring gas prices?

By: Independent Staff

David Galt plans his days differently now. Like many Montanans, high fuel prices have him thinking twice before jumping into his Cadillac SRX—the all-wheel-drive sport utility vehicle he bought to help safely transport himself, his wife, and his two large dogs in Montana’s harsh winter—to run once routine errands. “You used to just think nothing about hopping in the car and running into town to go to the store to get something you forgot. I think my wife and I are more conscious about buzzing into town for this and that,” says Galt. READ MORE


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Re-zone bums out skiers

A unanimous vote on a routine zoning item during the June 23 City Council meeting dealt a major bummer to local skiers and snowboarders by allowing the Town Pump gas station at I-90 and Reserve Street to expand over a vacant adjacent lot used for informal carpools by hundreds of Snowbowl patrons each season. While concerns over traffic congestion, casinos and semi-trucks persisted throughout the meeting, no reference was made to the scores of snow junkies whose mornings begin at that parking lot for several months each winter.

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Hardbound

Bitterroot journalist Greg Lemon cuts right to the chase in the opening pages of his new biography on Gov. Brian Schweitzer.

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The Pov put on hold

Poverello Center Executive Director Ellie Hill officially put the brakes on a new Northside chemical dependency drop-in center Monday when she cancelled a lease signing and let a June 30 state funding deadline pass. Hill’s decision followed a heated June 25 public feedback session at the Stensrud Building, in which angry residents lambasted the project, as well as Hill, for over two hours.

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A double grande announcement

Starbucks Coffee announced Tuesday afternoon the chain would close 600 U.S.

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Weaseled out

Montana’s dwindling wolverine population received a small reprieve earlier this month when Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) proposed reducing the number of legal wolverine harvests by one animal statewide, from 10 to nine. While the proposal is still open to public comment, the decision provided much-needed good news for wolverine advocates concerned about the elusive animal’s numbers.

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