Several years ago, Jade Powell uttered the word “transition” to a county commissioner at a local government meeting in the heart of Utah’s coalfields. The commissioner jumped out of his chair, grabbed ...
Mary Steurer is a reporter based in Bismarck. A native of St. Louis, Steurer most recently worked as the local government reporter for the Casper Star-Tribune newspaper in Wyoming. Sign up to receive ...
Dashiell Hammett, a former Pinkerton strikebreaker-turned-writer, modeled the fictional town of Poisonville on Butte, calling it an “ugly city of forty thousand people set in an ugly notch between two ...