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Opinion

January 2, 2025

The people’s list of Trump’s worst

Donald Trump has promised to go after enemies of the people, and will seek revenge against a list of individuals and organizations. But we the people have our own list. It consists of nominees for top positions in the Trump administration who should never serve in government.

December 12, 2024
Chuck Manning and Pete Kitts enter Northwest Lookout Tower. (Photo courtesy of Zeke Lloyd)

Fire lookout towers find renewed purpose

There’s a small wooden cabin at the top of Northwest Peak, a few miles from Montana’s borders with Idaho and Canada, and Chuck Manning, 79, believes lookouts like this one deserve a second chance at being useful.

December 5, 2024

Let’s scrap stigma of mental illness

Even though one in five Americans is estimated to suffer from mental health illness, talk about mental health in the rural West remains muted. I’d like to talk about it this Thanksgiving because I’m grateful I got the help I needed after a long-fought problem: I’m bipolar and I’m being treated for it.

December 5, 2024

Imagine a river more exciting than football

Imagine a best-selling, 900-page novel using “a sad, bewildered nothing of a river” as its centerpiece, connecting the earth’s geologic origin and dinosaur age to 1970s rural Colorado.