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Mike Smith

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Government and Politics Reporter at Montana Standard

Longtime reporter, including 20 years at AP, 16 as Statehouse correspondent in Indiana. Reports and writes now for The Montana Standard in Butte, MT.

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  • 1 week ago | mtstandard.com | Mike Smith

    A Butte man set for an August trial on incest and child pornography charges will now get two jury trials if the cases get that far. In a rare move, a prosecutor asked a judge to sever the charges into separate cases because of a Montana Supreme Court ruling in 2007 involving very similar allegations and circumstances.

  • 1 week ago | mtstandard.com | Mike Smith

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  • 1 week ago | mtstandard.com | Mike Smith

    A Republican lawmaker says Butte-Silver Bow is “playing with fire” legally and politically if it follows its county attorney’s legal analysis and flies the Pride flag at the courthouse or other government buildings. The county attorney, Matt Enrooth, said Friday that Missoula has cleared the way for Butte-Silver Bow and any other city or county in Montana to fly the Pride flag despite a new state law that bans government displays of certain flags. Republican state Rep.

  • 1 week ago | mtstandard.com | Mike Smith

    Fire gutted a mobile home on the Flats in Butte early Wednesday morning, but authorities say nobody was hurt. The fire broke out on the older motor home located near the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Walnut Street shortly after 5:30 a.m., sending a giant plume of black smoke into the air. Butte-Silver Bow Battalion Chief Brant Bristol said when firefighters arrived, the trailer was already fully engulfed, with a house just 20 feet from the blaze.

  • 1 week ago | wvnews.com | Mike Smith

    A Butte-Silver Bow resident says people are scattering flying garbage along Continental Drive and other routes on their way to the landfill and she wants county officials to do something. “Some of this garbage is from the pigs of Butte, but most of the garbage is from vehicles heading to the dump with no cover on their trucks,” Cathy Frey said in a recent letter to Butte-Silver Bow Commissioner Russell O’Leary.

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Mike Smith
Mike Smith @SmithStandard
24 Sep 20

RT @SallieGHammett: I wrote my dog an obituary because of course I did. He was the best boy. https://t.co/FKmqeivtq9

Mike Smith
Mike Smith @SmithStandard
24 Sep 20

God bless all dogs.

Bramber Bears💜
Bramber Bears💜 @TheWordOfErynn

Such an adorable obituary. Goldens really are very special dogs 💗💗💗

Mike Smith
Mike Smith @SmithStandard
24 Sep 20

RT @TheWordOfErynn: Such an adorable obituary. Goldens really are very special dogs 💗💗💗