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I was sitting in my car outside of a store in Billings on Sunday afternoon, and I spotted a couple guys with clipboards getting signatures from people walking in. What in the world are these guys collecting signatures for? Is it the marijuana legalization thing again? Nah, it can't be that because EVERYBODY is signing this thing, and they look excited to do so.

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

Lieutenant Governor, and Democrat gubernatorial candidate, Mike Cooney (D-MT) was busted for making campaign fundraising calls from his official office in the state capitol.

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.

A media effort to obtain information about an email flap involving members of Montana's Public Service Commission is headed to court.

"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."

This is, of course, major news on Montana's political scene, as The Billings Gazette is not only Montana's largest newspaper, it is also one of the most liberal anti-Trump editorial pages in the region.

Whoops. The editor of the anti-Trump Billings Gazette newspaper said his job as a journalist "is to question those in power." This, as he tweeted out a fake quote from President Donald Trump.

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One social outlet even had a picture of a tornado north of Logan International airport.