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Steve Thompson is the Executive Director of NCAT, and he’s helping organize efforts to determine if Butte will establish a food cooperative. In this episode of Let’s Talk Butte, we hear a bit about what food co-ops do, and how…

LOUIS (LEFT) PICTURED WITH LARRY HOFFMAN AT THE STEWARD MINE. Longtime hoisting engineer Louis Loushin joins us for this lesson in operating the Butte mines, as part of our ongoing oral history series. Aubrey Jaap interviews Louis at the Butte-Silver…

MONTANA TECH PHOTO Longtime Butte miner Larry Hoffman joins our show today with lively stories of mining as a child near his hometown of Lewistown, as well as the trials and tribulations of Butte, Montana’s biggest mining camp. Today on…

  Let’s Talk Butte takes a trip down the road to Anaconda, where we hear excerpts of a fascinating oral history with Frank Palakovich, who had 34 years with the Anaconda company over the course of his working days. LISTEN…

  On this episode of Let’s Talk Butte, we hear from an oral history with Jim Moyle. He grew up on Butte’s East Side (much of which was destroyed to make room for the Berkeley Pit), and in this episode…

  Today on Let’s Talk Butte, we hear excerpt of an oral history with longtime Butte under sheriff Joe Lee. Joe starts off today’s show talking about his dad’s work in the mines, and trials in tribulations he experienced as…

  JOEL WORTH (SECOND FROM LEFT) PICKETING THE CONSTRUCTION OF BUTTE BREWING. Joel Worth is a Representative at the Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters, and works in Montana with the statewide local 82. In this interview with Clark Grant,…

  Visit the book’s website here: Montana Tech Professor Michael Masters joins us for this discussion of his upcoming book, Identified Flying Objects. We also discuss larger evolutionary trends in humans, his work to bridge the UFO community and science,…

  After 12 years on the Butte-Silver Bow Council of Commissioners, Dan Foley is retiring from local politics. On this episode of Let’s Talk Butte, we look back on his work in local government and discuss some of the challenges…

  THE BUTTE WEEKLY OFFICE, AT ITS FORMER LOCATION ON MAIN STREET IN UPTOWN BUTTE. Today we’re joined by Robin Jordan, editor of Butte’s weekly newspaper, The Butte Weekly. We discuss Superfund, Butte’s economic status, and her long career in…