University of Montana

Let's talk a little bit about some of the things that student marchers get from going out and marching with the academy like what are some of the the pros and the pluses

yeah you know I was thinking on that too Martin because it's such a range right I was just connecting with somebody who was a good friend of mine from that 2001 year Andrew Smith who goes on to become a he was a soloist with blast after that and then Walt Disney World that the all-star all that kind of stuff and now is the trumpet professor at the University of Montana and um, and you know, all these individuals that you kind of hear of these little stories along the way.

Right.

Um, but then there's examples of, uh, somebody that was just reconnecting that was part of those early years.

The Historic Civic Center on Neal Avenue in Helena welcomes the Black Jacket Symphony, performing live at 8 p.m. in Whitefish.

The Whitefish Performing Arts Center on East 2nd Street hosts an autumn classical chamber ensemble recital that'll start at 7.30 p.m. Wrapping up on Thursday, October 29th, the University of Montana in Missoula hosts a free public science screening and expert panel for the documentary Eons, Life and Death on Pangea at 7 p.m. inside the University Center Theater.

In Great Falls, the Great Falls Public Library on 2nd Avenue North will hold an open team gaming and robotics lab that will run from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. Again, that's on Thursday.

In Livingston, the Shane Lalani Center for the Arts on East Lewis Street We'll present an open rehearsal and backstage technical tour that starts at 6.30 p.m.

The Historic Civic Center on Neal Avenue in Helena welcomes the Black Jacket Symphony, performing live at 8 p.m. in Whitefish.

The Whitefish Performing Arts Center on East 2nd Street hosts an autumn classical chamber ensemble recital that'll start at 7.30 p.m. Wrapping up on Thursday, October 29th, the University of Montana in Missoula hosts a free public science screening and expert panel for the documentary Eons, Life and Death on Pangea at 7 p.m. inside the University Center Theater.

In Great Falls, the Great Falls Public Library on 2nd Avenue North will hold an open teen gaming and robotics lab that will run from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. Again, that's on Thursday.

In Livingston, the Shane Lalani Center for the Arts on East Lewis Street hosts We'll present an open rehearsal and backstage technical tour that starts at 6.30 p.m.

We have one here in Idaho running for the Senate.

Montana has a very prominent former University of Montana president running as an independent.

And that kind of is a way to break up the kind of the Republican stranglehold on some of these Western states.

And we'll see whether it works.

Yeah, that's awesome.

Yeah, he's going to play basketball here for the University of Montana.

So he's a senior there.

this year yeah um so yeah he's the first uh high school kid out of montana in the last i think four years to be recruited um serious at uh grizz and cat level so

Well, on Friday, Pete Buttigieg, the former transportation secretary and possible 2028 presidential candidate, endorsed independent Seth Bodnar for the U.S. Senate in Montana over the Democratic Party's own nominee, Air Force veteran Alani Bankhead.

Bodner is a retired Green Beret, a Rhodes Scholar, and the former president of the University of Montana.

And he says he won't caucus with either party.

ABC News has reported that many Democrats are also backing independents over their own brand in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Idaho.

And he was super interested in the energy systems in Montana at the time.

Came out of that course, did a graduate program at University of Montana, focused on energy systems.

And Coming out of that program, he decided to focus on mid-scale renewable projects.

So not putting solar panels on your house at home, not building... mega multi gigawatt facilities, but looking at a school system that wants to be carbon neutral or, um, one ski resort that's looking to make all of its operations, carbon neutral, those scale, those size projects is where he felt like there was some of the biggest impact to be made on climate and energy.

And I think even with policy constraints in places, I think over time, this is how the world is changing.

For example, there was this aluminum smelter, and I talked about it at University of Montana.

And it had...

A lot of the jobs and industry in the community, well, it went away in 2008.