The world moved on after the Equal Rights Amendment failed to gain ratification decades ago. Now it’s back in the news.
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Tag Archives: Montana
Stripping Coal From The Prairie Economy
In one corner of the northern Great Plains, coal has staved off the region’s rural economic decline. That may soon end.
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Justices Return To (Parochial) School
A Montana case tests whether states can bar religious schools from public support merely because of their parochial nature.
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America’s Wild And Scenic Rivers
Every river has its own personality, but all members of the national Wild and Scenic Rivers system offer unspoiled beauty.
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Sucking The Joy Out Of The Afterlife
Self-appointed culture police try to extinguish celebrations of life (and death) with a cloud of self-righteous indignation.
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Turning Out The Lights In A Power Town
The Montana town of Colstrip was built to turn coal into electricity. What happens when the mines and power plants shut down?
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Not Much ‘Cub’ In This Young Reporter
Veteran journalists are unmoored by industry changes, but an enterprising 9-year-old sticks to basics and does the job.
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Political Medicine
Giving patients access to drugs they demand regardless of the science can be good politics, but it’s bad medicine.
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The GOP War On Flip-Flops
Political wrangling over a legislative dress code is really just a flap over flip-flops.
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Meeting Chief Joseph
How a 20th century Bronx teenager repeatedly crossed paths with a famous chief from the last of the American Indian Wars.
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