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Tag Archives: Great Falls Tribune
Take Montana to Manhattan…and meet the Naked Cowboy
(From Friday’s, April 27th Great Falls Tribune, here’s my essay about Brian Schweitzer in the Big Apple) The day before he was a guest on The David Letterman Show, Brian Schweitzer competed for attention with a perennial entertainer in the … Continue reading
The Town Crier in Pain: The Great Falls Tribune at 125
The slow decline of the paper is akin to watching a loved one suffer. I remember my father losing all that weight before he passed away. The paper, though occasionally bloated with ads, is starved for content that resonates with me. In an odd parallel, I began to see the same person dying two or three times on the obituary page (Printing errors? Editorial issues? Paddles?) Sometimes in a senior moment of my own, I’d think “Do I know that guy? His name is familiar.”Then I’d realize I read the same obituary a day or two before.
