ARTICLES BY MATT BUNK
Our goal: Provide hard facts on candidates
This election cycle has been exciting from the moment it began, with hotly contested races for several county offices and congressional midterms that could cause a political shift at the highest levels of government.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 10 YEARS AGO
Freund pleads guilty after car chase, death threats
Jeffrey Neil Freund entered a guilty plea Monday morning to felony criminal endangerment and misdemeanor driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs three months after he was arrested on April 6.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Enough blame to go around
It was pretty clear on Friday that at least one Lincoln County official was willing to accept responsibility for the mistakes that cost taxpayers more than $2 million.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Time for real answers from county officials
If you can break free from your usual obligations on Friday morning, you should stop by the press conference at Libby City Hall for a few minutes.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
It means the most to give when we have the least
It had been a difficult year for the 56 remaining employees at the Troy Mine. Their company had halted operations due to geological shifting. Three-fourths of their co-workers had been laid off. And their initial efforts to carve a new, safer passage to the ore bodies proved unsuccessful.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Two great events. One night. Why choose?
The annual Turner Mountain Fun Night usually signals the unofficial start of the ski and snowboard season. Snow bums pack the Red Dog from wall to wall, stuffing down pizza and telling stories of past glories on the mountain.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Shopping locally helps merchants, all of us
I’m sure everyone has heard that every dollar spent locally gets recirculated seven more times before it absconds from our community and, in many cases, falls into the deep pockets of large corporations.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Judge: Stinger cranes stay put for now
After one failed effort to legally restrain Stinger Welding from the Kootenai Business Park, Lincoln County has convinced a different judge to keep in place a temporary restraining order against the company while litigation continues over ownership of valuable industrial property.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
CARD Rally features 10-foot-tall mega lungs
Dusti Thompson was watching Dr. Oz on television one day last year when she saw a set of inflatable lungs that were big enough for several adults to fit inside.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Libby furniture store expands, consolidates downtown
Next time you go shopping at Managhan’s Furniture, make sure to compliment Mark and Amber on their new hole in the wall. Ripping through a couple of feet of concrete was, after all, the most difficult part of expanding their business.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
Baucus: 'Someone will step up' for Libby
When Sen. Max Baucus retires from the Senate next year, somebody will get elected to his position and somebody will fill his seat as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO
Gruber started the discussion; let's keep it going
Jeff Gruber recently wrote a series of columns focused on Libby’s economic trajectory from the boom years of the timber industry to the present-day situation in which large-scale logging has ceased, big private employers have absconded and our community is struggling mightily to discover a new economic identity.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Sen. Vincent summarizes Legislature
If you think you had a busy spring, consider the plight of Chas Vincent, who works a full-time job as a consultant, serves as a senator in the state Legislature, and just welcomed his fourth child into the world.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
