What’s left of the Conrad Bank building began yielding to the wrecking ball this morning. Most recently the home of B&B Loan and Rental, the building was gutted two years ago by a fire that destroyed the interior but allowed the hideous Sixties-era facade to come down, revealing some beautiful architectural flourishes and a brief [...]

I watched Senators Clinton and Obama bloviate on TV for a bit as they addressed the party faithful in Butte the other night. It’s a bit hard to compare their handiwork to President Clinton’s appearance here in Great Falls—he was speaking up close to a much smaller crowd and isn’t the one who’s actually running [...]

Is it just me, or do “Sheriffs’ Associations” need their annual donations every couple of weeks? I made the mistake of picking up the phone the other night and got hit by one of these groups. I offered to look at their printed material, but of course the caller pressed me for a “commitment.” [...]

KRTV just did a piece about local bloggers and asked me to say a few words on the process, which is a bit like asking J.D. Salinger why he still insists on flooding the market with his books. But if you’re interested, here’s the piece on my blog, which you’re reading now. How meta can [...]

Metro station roof
Just returned from a week-long vacation to visit the folks, who live in Virginia just south of Washington, D.C. It’s a great place to visit, especially since the territory is so different from Montana. Your sense of navigation gets messed up—roads go in all directions through endless housing tracts carved out [...]