Patron Saint

Local businessman Michael Burks says God gave him a fortune, so it's only natural that he spend it spreading the Gospel

Missoula multi-millionaire Michael Burks is intent on promoting a message of faith in Jesus Christ, and doing so on a large scale. It’s part of the reason he’s helping to bring Sarah Palin to Missoula for a Sept. 12 fundraiser to benefit Teen Challenge, and why he recently fought the county over whether or not he could host a Christian rock concert at the fairgrounds. Burks doesn’t covet the spotlight, but he’s finding it hard to avoid while doggedly pushing his beliefs.

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Blogs

FWP seeks advisers for Spotted Dog

Brian Schweitzer got his wish.

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Black Crowes show falls through

The Black Crowes concert at Ryan Creek Meadows hit a snag last night when both the headlining band and the opener, Jackie Greene, failed to take the stage.

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Your future, a little early

Find Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology online, every Wednesday, one day before it hits the Indy's printed pages.

Sep 1, 2010

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etc.

Cut through all the positive spin around corporate downsizing and the journalism industry looks downright bleak these days.

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Deadly choice

Video exposes state's "poison and plant" program

A small plane swoops down over a high alpine lake, suddenly releasing a huge cloud in its wake.

(Ochenski)  

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War of the wells

War of the wells

Montanans close to Yellowstone better wake up

Before the drilling rigs arrive in Paradise Valley, Andrea Peacock thinks it's worth considering what it means to live in a gas patch.

(Range)  

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Patron Saint

Patron Saint

Local businessman Michael Burks says God gave him a fortune, so it's only natural that he spend it spreading the Gospel

Missoula multi-millionaire Michael Burks is intent on promoting a message of faith in Jesus Christ, and doing so on a large scale. It’s part of the reason he’s helping to bring Sarah Palin to Missoula for a Sept. 12 fundraiser to benefit Teen Challenge, and why he recently fought the county over whether or not he could host a Christian rock concert at the fairgrounds. Burks doesn’t covet the spotlight, but he’s finding it hard to avoid while doggedly pushing his beliefs.

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Ryan Creek

Money, it's a gas

Missoula insurance agent and entrepreneur Toby Hansen petitioned for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Aug. 19, a move he believes will stabilize longstanding legal entanglements that have plagued development near his nearby outdoor concert venue—Ryan Creek Meadows—without endangering the venue itself.

(Info)  

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Critical condition

St. Patrick audit leaves some dependents uninsured

Hank McClain has worked at St. Patrick Hospital since 1974, and the hospital has long provided he and his wife, Mardia Parker, health insurance.

(Up Front)  

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Mountain High

For many of you, Labor Day weekend means packing up the car, getting out of Dodge, and heading to the nearest vast expanse of wooded land for a weekend of good old fashioned backcountry adventure.

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Rattlesnake

Group proposes restoration plan

A hodgepodge of local residents are joining forces with the U.S. Forest Service to actively manage 13,000 acres of public land across the Marshall Creek, Woods Gulch and Lower Rattlesnake Creek drainages.

(Info)  

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Back on

Flathead shock jock John Stokes returns to radio

Stokes resumed his usual sociopolitical rants last week on Rense Radio Network, nearly 11 months to the day since the Flathead County Sheriff's Office shut down his Kalispell radio station, KGEZ, in mid-broadcast.

(Up Front)  

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eBay

Bidding on a PEAS pig

On Monday at about 12:45 p.m., eBay notified Julie Baldridge, a retired social worker in Whitefish using the online auction website for the first time, that she placed the winning bid on a pig—one currently noshing on scraps of food at Missoula's PEAS Farm.

(Info)  

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Sex

Bullock targets Craigslist

Craigslist Missoula lists three adult services ads this week.

(Info)  

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Viewfinder

Hundreds of Bob Dylan fans challenged security outside Ogren-Allegiance Park Tuesday night as they scaled railroad trestles, clambered onto dirt piles and snuck around barricades on the Riverfront Trail in hopes of catching sight of the legend’s outdoor concert.

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Working draft

Working draft

Photographer Marcy James puts her creative process on display

For the past six months, Marcy James has engaged in a long and involved conversation with her bedroom wall.

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Myth busted

Duvall's Get Low can't withstand the hype

As mythical cinematic letdowns go, none is greater than the infamous man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz.

(Film Features)  

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Psycho players

Big John Bates brings the voodoo to Missoula

As Big John Bates plays, a crisis brews on stage.

(Soundcheck)  

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Japandroids

Post-Nothing

Japandroids' sound is like a sunny day suddenly taken hostage by an afternoon rainstorm.

(Noise)  

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The Constellations

Southern Gothic

I have a serious crush on Tennessee Williams, so when I saw that Atlanta, Ga., electronic/rock/pyschedelic/ soul-ish band The Con-stellations titled their latest, Southern Gothic, I just had to consult my "American Lit.

(Noise)  

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The Keys Knees

Hi-Five

I'm not a fan of the drum machine unless it's played by Pat, the old lady at the Sip-N-Dip Lounge in Great Falls, or it's strongly muffled by other, less robotic instruments.

(Noise)  

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Iron Maiden

The Final Frontier

In 1989 things got weird.

(Noise)  

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Most Popular

  • Facebook "friending" lands activist Rod Coronado in prison

    Animal rights and environmental activist Rod Coronado finds himself in federal prison for becoming a “friend” with part-time Missoula resident and Earth First!

    (Indy Blog)   Aug 24, 2010

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  • Palin coming to Missoula, but at what cost?

    Missoulian reporter Keila Szpaller scored the scoop on Sarah Palin's scheduled September visit to the Garden City.

    (Indy Blog)   Mar 9, 2010

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  • Deep cut

    Most Montanans peg Huey Lewis as an out-of-touch carpetbagger here to hoard the Bitterroot for himself. When the pop star called us from a hospital bed asking to tell his side, who were we to say no?

    Huey Lewis wants to set the record straight: He’s not a jerk.

    (Features)   Jun 17, 2009

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Flash in the Pan

Flash in the Pan

The children of my corn

As I was preparing to move to New Mexico, a Blackfeet woman visited to see about renting my house in Missoula.

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