During lunch with a friend in East Glacier, a former student came table-hopping.  In the course of conversation, he confided that he was a little worried.  In high school he had played football and been knocked unconscious several times.  Now, in middle age, he was beginning to have mysterious blackouts and brain glitches.  He was not a drunk.  I paid close attention...

The MATTL  wire and tower system for conveying electricity from Montana wind farms to Canadian cities — and  esp. the problem of where to site it — is both a small issue and a major issue, both an issue from the past and an issue for the future. On the small end, where to put a specific tower is a problem to solve in terms of relationship to the whole line...

“The Bloomsbury Review”, a newsprint book review publication that I first picked up at the better bookstores in Portland in the Nineties, still survives and deserves to be celebrated as such, since so many of this category have died, groaning. Quarterly, its headquarters are in Denver, truly Western, unlike the faux-Western Lost Angeles that is only flipped Coastal....