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Montana’s only statewide food bank warns that at least 12,000 residents are at risk of losing some or all of their federal food benefits. The overhaul of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, coincides with growing demand for food pantry services in Montana.
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People have lived in Big Sky Country for a little more than 10,000 years. But living things creeped and crawled and swam around here for hundreds of millions of years before then. A Big Why listener wanted to know when life showed up in the place we now call Montana.
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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn returns to the first part of a two-part conversation with Chris La Tray, Métis storyteller and Montana Poet Laureate (2023-2025). The two discuss his memoir, ‘Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home’ (Milkweed Editions). This episode originally aired November 7, 2024, under the title “What kind of society do we live in where any Indigenous people can be considered ‘landless’ in the first place?”
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President Trump is heading to Texas to assess the damage caused by the recent flooding. DOGE has access to a database that controls government payments to farmers and ranchers.
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The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly plugging away at research they hope will help us all adapt to the Biosphere 1 — that is Earth, and the climate change we are causing to it.
Congolese guitarist, composer and singer Niwel Tsumbu joins host John Floridis. Niwel shares his remarkable story that begins growing up with five siblings in a single parent home in a poverty stricken area in the megacity of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
