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Some cities are wondrous things. Organisms at once propagating and receding, a single entity with parts living and others dying. We don’t often experience whole cities where success and despair are partners, growth and decay lie side by side, and history’s tumult remains visible. I grew up in such a place — Butte, Mont. Last month I visited another — Detroit, Mich. I had never been there, but my friend Brian, who grew up south of Detroit, invited me to visit. I had earlier... Full story
Jackie Robinson's birthday earlier this week reminds us of a cool fall evening — Aug. 28, 1945 — when the 26-year-old former Army Lieutenant who had been court marshalled for refusing orders to sit in the back of an Army bus, walked to 215 Sukeforth St. in Brooklyn, the office of the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, Mr. Branch Rickey. At that meeting Mr. Rickey informed the young man, Jack Roosevelt Robinson, that he was being offered a contract to play in the major leagues — the first black man in hi... Full story
Baseball, like the swallows, is again moving north. It is spring and the national pastime with its civility and elegance is arriving in Montana just in time. Our four-month winter is over and, hopefully, so is the recent public frustration shadowing a few of Montana's student athletes. Baseball, despite doping allegations about some of its players, is, nonetheless, a curative played on green fields under warm afternoon high skies. Pat Williams As the majors celebrated opening day, we here in Montana are eager to take our... Full story
Recently, we suffered the loss of two very fine American politicians: Hugh Carey, a former U.S. congressman and governor of New York, and former U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield of Oregon. First, Gov. Carey. He was elected in 1975, and, like our current President Barrack Obama, inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression. Carey's predecessors in both the state and New York City — both Republicans — had so mismanaged the New York economy that New York went bankrupt. Gov. Carey, an unabashed liberal, righted the economic ship...