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Michael Becker
Michael Becker is the Web Editor of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. He has been a blogger and professional journalist since 2005, covering subjects ranging from nonprofits and crime to engineering and technology.
Spend election night with the Chronicle
The Chronicle’s website will be open late to provide readers with election results as they come in Tuesday night.
Blurring lines: Ads on Facebook
On Saturday evening, the Chronicle will almost certainly do something it has never done before. We will post an in-house promotion on our Facebook page.
Unpublishable
We decided not to publish a public document that went with a sex abuse story. Here’s the rationalization.
News site in upstate New York has uniquely awful approach to its website
A newspaper in upstate New York has an interesting approach to trying to get readers to pay for online articles.
Gallatin County approves ViaSat dishes west of Bozeman
A Carlsbad, Calif.-based communications company won approval from the Gallatin County Commission last week to build a pair of 34-foot-tall satellite dishes along Love Lane… Read More »Gallatin County approves ViaSat dishes west of Bozeman
Tobacco officer helps clear the air in Gallatin County
A few months ago, while in the hospital recovering from a serious motorcycle accident, Rick Gale remembers his doctor asking him those standard medical questions:
Do you have any allergies? Are you taking any medications? Do you smoke?
It was that last question that almost cracked Gale up. He replied, “You don’t know what I do for a living, do you?”
Read More »Tobacco officer helps clear the air in Gallatin County
It’s about time
The cassette Walkman joins the Atari, Nintendo Entertainment System and Windows 3.1 as things that people my age use as examples of how hard we… Read More »It’s about time
The incident on Story Street
In the Chronicle’s police reports on Sept. 9, the incident read like this:
“A 17-year-old boy needed medical help after someone caught him stealing from vehicles.”
That someone was Eddie Steinhauer, and the police report as printed doesn’t hold a candle to Steinhauer’s account of what happened on Story Street that night.
Anonymous Montana political blogger angers readers with SD-25 post
A post from pro-Democrat blogger Montana Cowgirl caused a ruckus over the weekend. In the post, titled “The Fundamental Difference,” the anonymous blogger published a… Read More »Anonymous Montana political blogger angers readers with SD-25 post