Bodnar graduates from UM 🎓
University of Montana President Seth Bodnar’s mid-year exit all but confirms Senate ambitions.
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Light it up
The Classic Spanish Coffee is a dramatic and delicious cocktail served at Missoula’s new coffee and cocktails bar inside the historic Florence building — a downtown landmark undergoing a revival.
An ode to the lonely labor of forestry
In ‘Train Dreams,’ the new film adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella, I saw my own Forest Service career reflected back at me.
Bodnar plots independent Senate run
University of Montana President Seth Bodnar expected to challenge Republican Sen. Steve Daines, with former Sen. Jon Tester’s backing.
Bringing home the bacon (and the elk)
From feral pigs to wild game, the Montana Food Bank Network is leveraging some creative sources of protein for hungry families.
Trained robbery
AI giant Anthropic may owe dozens of Montana authors money after training its Claude chatbot on pirated books. But writers say a copyright settlement doesn’t address a deeper anxiety — losing the humanity in humanities.
Written in the land
Sally Thompson’s ‘Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World’ grew from her work on the Clark Fork Superfund case. But the book itself reaches back to the first encounter between the Salish and Jesuit missionaries, where radically different ways of understanding land collided — with consequences that continue to unfold.
How 2025 changed Missoula
From zoning code reform debates and shelter closure to Mayor Davis’ landslide re-election and DOGE budget cuts, here’s what mattered most.
House rules
As the Missoula City Council prepares to vote on a new zoning code, The Pulp talks with a builder and an affordable housing advocate about what the reforms unlock — and why change can’t wait.
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