The Hidden Valley In Montana We have seen some beautiful places in Montana, but the last two days introduced us to a remote canyon in the state that we have fallen in love with. The Castle Mountains are on one side and the Crazies on the other. Tucked in between are thousands of acres of farm land filled with cattle. The green hills, the trees, the streams….it’s beautiful. Our journey started at the little church in Lennep, Mt. Never heard of it? You aren’t alone. There’s an old schoolhouse,...

America’s Battle with Electoral Dysfunction. It’s election day in many places, including my home state of Oregon. My email is littered with stories of multiple ballots showing up at people’s houses, and people out of state still receiving an Oregon ballot. In Maryland, tens of thousands of ballots were mixed up and messed up. We are experiencing a national outbreak of Electoral Dysfunction. Electoral dysfunction (ED), sometimes called election impotence, is the consistent inability to get or...

You Come To A Point The Reason Doesn’t Matter You come to a point in life where truth is more important than anything. As a journalist, my professional life was all about learning to smell the faint odor that follows the path of a lengthy lie. Like a doctor can sense disease, a journalist puts together bits and pieces of information to find not one conclusion but story after story, colliding into one messy narrative. There are not two sides to every issue, but many. You learn that after years...