billings gazette

With everyone out there looking for somebody else to pay their bills, looking for someone else to pay off their student loans for them...I thought this was pretty cool and worth commending.

A legendary Montana photographer will be a special guest at Thursday's State of the Union Address in Washington, D.C. The Billings Gazette's Larry Mayer was already en route when I heard from him Wednesday morning.

I hate unannounced visits to anything of mine, and this would be one that I would hate even more.

Larry Mayer is an incredible photographer here in Montana. He's been with The Billings Gazette for over 40 years. A new exhibit opens July 7th.

A WWII Marine was finally brought home to Moccasin, Montana and laid to rest. Family, friends, and patriots gathered in the Central Montana town to give Lt. Gordon Thompson a proper goodbye, over eight decades later.

If you lose your local paper, you lose the majority of your local coverage. So we'll get fewer pictures of small-town parades, criminals to be on the lookout for, and somebody's kids making a basket in the big school tournament.

There was a plan. And it was a plan to shoot down the China spy balloon over the Beartooth Mountains. Larry Mayer joined us to talk about his latest report.

Just admit that the Chick-Fil-A chicken is incredible.

We were talking about downtown crime. We were talking about the transients downtown. And, we got to talking about how empty the big Billings Gazette building has been of late. "Didn't you hear that building is for sale?" I asked them. "Really?" They asked. Yep.

We caught up with Montana News Guild organizers for a quick Q & A about their effort to unionize at the Billings Gazette.

Start school sooner, and get done with school sooner. That's what Montana State University is planning for the Fall semester in Bozeman, according to an announcement made just before the weekend kicked off.

"Got a call from a man who wanted me to know I am losing my job because I am an atheist, liberal ding dong who supports baby killing and population control. And all along I thought it was a changing business model."