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In total since 1889, eight women have served in Montana House leadership. [25] There has never been a female House Speaker. [25] In the 67th Legislative session (2021), of the four Montana Senate leadership positions, only the Senate Minority Leader was a woman, Democrat Jill Cohenour. [25]
This is a list of newspapers in Montana. Current news publications. Anaconda Leader - Anaconda; Augusta Breeze - Augusta; Belgrade News - Belgrade;
Gretchen Garber was born in Whitefish, Montana in 1914 [1] but was raised in the Seattle area. [2] She spent summers in Montana with her grandparents to lessen the impact of her chronic lung disease [ 3 ] and moved to Montana permanently after World War II .
Jun. 23—The Daily Inter Lake was named the best daily newspaper in the state Saturday at the Montana Newspaper Association's 139th annual convention and awards banquet in Kalispell. The Inter ...
Suffrage supporters contacted Montana newspapers every week about the vote. [44] They sent out around 100,000 letters and sent personal letters to farmers in the state. [35] [40] Thirty-thousand copies of "Women Teachers of Montana Should Have the Vote" were printed and passed out by the Missoula Teachers' Suffrage Committee.
Harry L. Billings won the Montana Newspaper Hall of Fame award in 1997, and Gretchen Garber Billings won the award in 2007. [7] In 1983, Harry won the University of Montana Distinguished Alumnus Award. [8] Harry was also a member of the Montanan Bicentennial advisory council in the mid-1970s. [2]
On September 12, 1928 the Anaconda Standard's Butte edition merged with Butte Miner to form The Montana Standard. [3] At the time it was owned by the Anaconda Company. [4] In 1959, It was sold to Lee Enterprises. [4] In 1971, under the leadership of Betty Danfield, the paper's women's section won the Penney-Missouri Award for General Excellence ...
The Oberlies immediately hired a manager and an editor, and moved the operation into an office in the Heights section of Billings, Montana. They operated the weekly newspaper for five years. [7] During these years, the newspaper regularly employed up to seven correspondents who wrote news stories from their respective areas of the county. [8]