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BOZEMAN – Language is a meaning-making tool, one that educates and informs, persuades and dissuades, connects and divides. At Montana State University, Michelle Miley has devoted her career to ensuring that students develop the skills to use that tool, along with an understanding that the writing process itself can forge connections between people with vastly different viewpoints. As director of the MSU Writing Center and associate dean in the College of Letters and Science, Miley believes writing skills are essential in society and that they will remain so, even as generative artificial intelligence platforms that can emulate human writing, like ChatGPT, gain wider usage. Miley...

News from Montana Conservation Voters HELENA — On Oct. 30, 2023, the nonprofit organization Montana Conservation Voters (“MCV”) and a group of individual Montanans challenged the Public Service Commission (“PSC”) district map, which the legislature drew to ensure Republican...

News from the Port Polson Players POLSON — Port Polson Players in association with MVFA present William Inges’s classic comedy, “Bus Stop” to begin the Players 49th season of live theatre. “Bus Stop” also kicks off the Mission Valley Friends of the Arts annual members...

News from the office of Senator Tester U.S. Senate — During a Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing Nov. 1 on research at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Chairman Jon Tester pressed VA officials to ensure rural veterans are benefiting from VA research efforts, particularly thei...

News from MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks KALISPELL — Montana’s general hunting season is in full swing, and hunters are experiencing the arrival of winter weather in northwest Montana. Snowfall began last week across most of the region and the National Weather Service is advising recreatio...

News from the Montana Stockgrowers Association HELENA — The Montana Stockgrowers Foundation (MSF) Cattle Drive program has set out to do something no other cattle organization in the state has done—match Montana born, raised, and fed cattle with local restaurants and retailers. The “Mo...

News from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks HELENA – Those interested in entering a lottery for a guided trophy bison hunt on the Blackfeet Reservation will have five opportunities to enter the drawing. Chances sold from Oct. 28 to Nov. 16, drawing Nov. 17 Chances sold from Nov. 18 to Dec. ...

News from Serve Montana, Governor’s Office of Community Service HELENA — The Governor’s Office of Community Service, Reach Higher Montana, and Montana Campus Compact are pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2024 Youth Serve Montana Scholarship. This year...

News from the office of  Governor Gianforte HELENA —  Governor Greg Gianforte recently praised wildland firefighters and staff and leadership at the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) for its effective response during the 2023 Fire Season, keeping 96% of fire...

News from Sloane Stinson, Montana Department of Transportation RONAN — The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) and Riverside Contracting Inc. have completed paving operations from the US Highway 93 intersection with Round Butte Road and Terrace Lake Road, to the intersection with Third...