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On the podcast this week we deviate a little from the usual format and have a relatively free wheeling conversation about the world around us.  If you wan’t to check out of life for about 45 minutes, then this is the episode for you.

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Proposed FY2021 Budget and capital improvement plans for the City of Billings, Montana

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On this weeks edition of The Friday Packet we’re outside (literally) catching on Billings Montana city council meetings.  On the show we talk about one-way roads, two-way roads, sidewalks and since we live in Montana and we are legally required to do it, guns.

2018 Billings Urban Area Long Range Transportation

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On the show this week we catch up on Billings city council happenings and Billings, Montana local news.   Its been about a month since our last one so there is plenty to talk about.

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On this weeks show is an interview with The executive director of The Western Heritage Center in Billings Montana, Kevin Kooistra that we conducted back in September of 2019.  We used portions of the interview in the making of “Elk river blues”, an episode that details the Yellowstone Kelly interpretive center. Western heritage Center website

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On this weeks podcast we detail the February 18th and 24th 2020 Billings Montana city council meetings.  The meeting on the 24th seeing a lot more public engagement as the council discussed whether  Welcoming Diversity Ordinance deserved to be put on a future agenda.  Click the link below to read one council members opinions on the WDO.

Shaun Browns email response to Norma Buchanan on why he opposed the WDO

Emails from constituents to council concerning the WDO

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On this weeks show we go over the February 3rd and February 10th, 2020 Billings city council meetings.  Also in the episode we give you two regional rundowns. (spoiler alert, they contain a lot of “dudes”)

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On this weeks edition of the show we try, and fail, not to bitch about everything in the city of Billings, Montana.  Joins us a we meander through the January 21 2020 Billings city council work session and the January 27 2020 Regular Billings city council meetings.  Plus a double dose of regional rundown.

Billings City Council Special Work Session for Strategic Planning – Feb. 1, 2020

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On this weeks show we tackle two meetings of the Billings city council. A January 6th 2020 works session and a January 13th 2020 regular session.  Join us as you get not one, but two regional rundowns, and also a breakdown of the public safety discussion put on by city staff at the library.

Video of public safety discussion at the library.

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On this edition of the show we wrap up the year in Billings city government and Billings top news stories.  From rock slides to…well…more rockslides we’ll cover it all on this show.  And bears, we’ll definitely talk about bears.

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On this episode of the show, Stout and I delve into a subject that has perplexed us for a while, the Yellowstone Kelly Gravesite in Billings, Montana.  Perplexed because with the Yellowstone valley is filled with so much history, why the site is mostly devoted to just one man, Yellowstone Kelly.   Join us as we take a walk through the site narrating our thoughts as we do, and then sit down with the executive director of the Western Heritage Center, Kevin Kooistra, to give us more perspective on the site.

——->Check out the links below<——–

What the Kelly site used to look like

Kevin Kooistra talks about Fredrick Billings

Kevin Kooistra talks about Hazel Hunkins Hallinan

Buy the book–>Pretty-Shield: Medicine Woman of The Crow

Joe Medicine Crow profiled in Ken Burns’ documentary “The War”

Listen and subscibe to the Montana Historical Society podcast

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