Politics

Choteau is home to the  Old North Trail Tours, & you're invited to meet tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 7:30 at the Old Trail Museum. The kick off is at 8 o'clock SHARP. The guides invite you to learn about ancient peoples, their practices & the cultural items they left on our eastern Rocky Mountain Front. Tours ...

Amtrak is honoring the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) being signed into law on July 26, 1990 by taking significant steps to improve the travel experience for passengers with disabilities. Amtrak has taken input from station owners, stakeholders from the disability community & state & federal officials on how to improve the experience for customers with disabi

A group of faith leaders that took part in a Washington forum on Capitol Hill have CONDEMNED payday & title loans, calling them immoral debt traps. They spoke recently at an event organized by California Representative Maxine Waters. Waters says she's going to call for widespread divestment from these lending firms. A ...

I'll be back up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby this evening (Tuesday) to read & share more Montana History. We should be finishing up the biography of Conrad's Daniel & Panayiota McCorkle, "To Speak Of Love Was Not Enough," & the NEXT book on the program is "Three Ringlings In Montana; Circus Trains to Cattle Ranches" by Lee Rostad & it looks like

The City of Shelby weed ordinance requires that all vegetation on your  property be kept below 6 inches! IF vegetation is in excess of this, you're in VIOLATION of the ordinance. This ordinance is AVAILABLE on the City of Shelby website (www...

I'm going to put through a long distance phone call to that zany New York City cabdriver, Peter Franklin, the Gabby Cabby, this afternoon (Tuesday) at 4:35 on the Puffman Show. The Driver of the Yellow Mobile Conveyance Lounge has a ton of True Tales on his website: gabby...

A report came rolling in this morning from Tall Todd, the custom cutter guy & Todd plans to be down in the Conrad area around the 20th of this month! The guys have run into green with only a couple of days of harvest left out in Leoti, Kansas. He...

Montana is home to the highest suicide rate in the country, & the child suicide rate (ages 10 to 17) is DOUBLE the national rate according to a recent report from Montana Kids Count. The report explains the risk factors, signs, & effective prevention. Childr...

There's a ton of Montana history in the book that we're currently reading & enjoying Tuesday evenings up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby. Jack Toole, Jeannette Rankin, the Conrad Presbyterian Church, Butte & Browning, Montana too! It see...

Up for grabs tomorrow (Saturday) morning on Puffman Sports Trivia, I have a new "golf" orientated book, "The Flem Cup; A Story of Friendship, Love and Redemption" penned by outstanding author, Scott Dow. It starts out with a 2001 beer-fueled skirmish late 1 night in England that transformed an ordinary golf trip into an extraordinary best of 5 match between teams from England &

tThere will be a Town of Kevin Government Study Town Meeting this evening (Tuesday) up north at the Kevin Senior Center. Tonight's meeting will commence at 6:30 SHARP. Be involved with your community...hope you can make tonight's Government Study Town Meeting in Kevin...

Tall Todd the custom harvester guy says that he is 1 field short of finishing in Clinton, Oklahoma. That field is still muddy, but should be dried out enough today as the forecast there is for 95 degrees & 15 to 30 mph south winds! The crop ran from 25 to 30 bushels to the acre with test weights between 57 & 58 pounds, except for 1 load that only weighed 47.9 pound...