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Larry Mayer is an incredible photographer here in Montana. He's been with The Billings Gazette for over 40 years. A new exhibit opens July 7th.

A WWII Marine was finally brought home to Moccasin, Montana and laid to rest. Family, friends, and patriots gathered in the Central Montana town to give Lt. Gordon Thompson a proper goodbye, over eight decades later.

If you lose your local paper, you lose the majority of your local coverage. So we'll get fewer pictures of small-town parades, criminals to be on the lookout for, and somebody's kids making a basket in the big school tournament.

There was a plan. And it was a plan to shoot down the China spy balloon over the Beartooth Mountains. Larry Mayer joined us to talk about his latest report.

Just admit that the Chick-Fil-A chicken is incredible.

Paul and I put an article out every day. And anybody who can afford the internet is welcome to say anything they want to us.

We were talking about downtown crime. We were talking about the transients downtown. And, we got to talking about how empty the big Billings Gazette building has been of late. "Didn't you hear that building is for sale?" I asked them. "Really?" They asked. Yep.

We caught up with Montana News Guild organizers for a quick Q & A about their effort to unionize at the Billings Gazette.

Start school sooner, and get done with school sooner. That's what Montana State University is planning for the Fall semester in Bozeman, according to an announcement made just before the weekend kicked off.

"Got a call from a man who wanted me to know I am losing my job because I am an atheist, liberal ding dong who supports baby killing and population control. And all along I thought it was a changing business model."

You hate to see people lose their jobs but the power of the purse can go a long way.

This is, of course, major news on Montana's political scene, as The Billings Gazette is not only Montana's largest newspaper, it is also one of the most liberal anti-Trump editorial pages in the region.