Gwen Florio

Jul 30, 2024 | thenation.com | Gabriel Furshong |Nick Bowlin |Gwen Florio

Feature / Senator Jon Tester is the last Democrat holding statewide office in Montana. Can he save his seat and help keep the Senate blue? This article appears in the August 2024 issue, with the headline “The Dirt Farmer of the Senate.”On November 7, 2006, Senator Jon Tester gathered with his campaign team at the Heritage Inn in Great Falls, Montana, a former smelter town with a population of 60,000 clustered around five hydroelectric dams on the Missouri River.

Jan 15, 2024 | tucsonfestivalofbooks.org | Gwen Florio |Tod Goldberg

The members of the Pima County Public Library’s Southwest Books of the Year committee read dozens of novels each year, choosing only a very few of them to honor for their excellence. Please join us as this year’s honorees—Brendan Shay Basham (Swim Home to the Vanished), Stacie Shannon Denetsosie (The Missing Morningstar), Tod Goldberg (Gangsters Don’t Die), and Manuel Muñoz (The Consequences)—read from and discuss their prizewinning work.

Nov 16, 2023 | crimereads.com | Gwen Florio

It’s a perennial question at readings and signings: Where do you get the ideas for your books? I usually mumble something that amounts to (phrased politely), “I pull them out of thin air.”But when it comes to Best Be Prepared (Severn House), my most recent in a series featuring amateur sleuth Nora Best, I know the answer. Fear.

Aug 15, 2023 | thenation.com | Gabriel Furshong |Michael T. Klare |Kathleen McLaughlin |Gwen Florio

Environment / A state district court ruled yesterday that Montana’s failure to document greenhouse gas emissions violates children’s constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment. Ad PolicyHelena, Mont.—Four years ago, Shane Doyle spoke at a climate action rally in Bozeman. Afterward, a Montana State University (MSU) student approached him to ask whether his three daughters would consider joining a climate lawsuit against the state. He struggled with the decision.

May 1, 2023 | thenation.com | Gabriel Furshong |Gwen Florio |Mychal Denzel Smith

Helena, Mont.—When Representative Zooey Zephyr, the first trans woman elected to the Montana legislature, picked up her microphone last Wednesday, she knew it could be her last chance to speak on the House floor. House Speaker Matt Regier had refused to call on her after her criticism of an anti-trans bill offended members of his caucus. Then, some Republicans accused her of inciting protesters who filled the House Gallery on April 24. Now, she faced expulsion from the Chamber.