While Podcasters Talk, This Local News Guy Walks The Walk

Did you know today is “local news day”? If not, that’s funny, since local news people are supposed to be helping you know about what’s going in your community, which is why John Adams is promoting local news day with help from the Headwaters Foundation and the Montana Newspaper Association.

Local News Day is a national day of action on April 9 that’s connecting communities with trusted local news. The mission is simple: reconnect people to trusted local outlets, empower newsrooms to grow, and spark a national movement that sustains local news for generations.

When I got to the “Local News Day partners” part of the “local news” article promoting “local news day” from a “news” source that omitted the inconvenient fact that projectiles were thrown at legislators by Zooey Zephyr supporters three years ago, I had to laugh. Of course the quiet money of the Headwaters Foundation would be involved, a foundation I have dutifully tracked over the years after they went dark, then reemerged in 2018.

The other local news day partner, the Montana Newspaper Association, includes newspapers like the Missoulian, which recently sent out David Erickson to investigate a restaurant group after his AMAZING breaking story about the terrible sadness of Taco Sano employees laboring under an evil boss who refused to allow them to politicize their workplace with anti-ICE propaganda.

In similar fashion, Erickson wrote LOTS of words about the Pangea Group recently in what I consider a hit piece against Scott Billadeau, the outgoing co-owner who once publicly criticized the now-discredited pandemic policies pushed on the public by media outlets like Lee Enterprises.

When I read a hardcopy of the article at a local coffee shop it was clear to me how the guy attempting to takeover ownership of Pangea, Kyle Riggs, is benefiting from this “news coverage”, which features his mommy, Marilyn, and HER lawsuit against Scott Billadeau. Curious for more context on Kyle Riggs I consulted his Facebook page, which highlights his past work for Paws Up Ranch, where the alleged sister-rapist, Sam Altman, was hanging with his tech-pals last June.

While David Erickson writes on behalf of sommeliers and social justice taco makers (and sometimes steals credit for my work), I break stories about retiring Detectives named Guy Baker, resigning Chamber of Commerce presidents, shady alpha condo developers named Aaron Wagner, and a pattern of deaths some speculate could be serial in nature.

I even write about the Homeless Industrial Complex and the threat of Sigil Kult WITHOUT getting paid by the Discovery Institute, like these two assholes.

Does it frustrate me to see grifters everywhere? Yes. Do I file butthurt reports on myself to cope? Yes. Does it work? Not really, hence my use of AI to make images like this one about the kind of people who SAY local stuff matters, but then flex like the petty gatekeepers that they are.

I’m going to end today’s post with a story I heard from someone living unconventionally in the woods near the area where a corpse was found last November, a corpse that STILL has not been publicly identified, despite my attempts to ask WHO DIED? A cop?

The person I spoke with said yes, the person who died last November was a police officer, and he died while in pursuit of a suspect. It was during this pursuit that the police officer, who was going up steep, mountainous terrain, slipped and fell to his death.

I don’t know if this is true, but it’s the second person who has suggested that the unnamed dead person was a cop, and with local authorities refusing to respond to my email inquiries, I’m leaning toward believing the gist of this alleged scenario (I’m withholding some details regarding what I was told as I keep digging on this story).

If you appreciate my local news on this local news day, please consider donating to Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF), or come down the Missoula County Courthouse at noon today and say hi. I’m tentatively planning on tabling with my puppet candidate for Sheriff, Pirate Booty, from noon to around 2pm. And stay tuned for more local reporting on the Fireweed scandal, which I’m still looking into because even seasoned veterans of political shenanigans seem confused about this one.

Thanks for reading!