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Michael Becker

Michael Becker is the Web Editor of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. He has been a blogger and professional journalist since 2005, covering subjects ranging from nonprofits and crime to engineering and technology.

Blurring lines: Ads on Facebook

On Saturday evening, the Chronicle will almost certainly do something it has never done before. We will post an in-house promotion on our Facebook page.

Unpublishable

We decided not to publish a public document that went with a sex abuse story. Here’s the rationalization.

Tobacco officer helps clear the air in Gallatin County

A few months ago, while in the hospital recovering from a serious motorcycle accident, Rick Gale remembers his doctor asking him those standard medical questions:

Do you have any allergies? Are you taking any medications? Do you smoke?

It was that last question that almost cracked Gale up. He replied, “You don’t know what I do for a living, do you?”

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It’s about time

The cassette Walkman joins the Atari, Nintendo Entertainment System and Windows 3.1 as things that people my age use as examples of how hard we had it compared to you young whipper-snappers.

The incident on Story Street

In the Chronicle’s police reports on Sept. 9, the incident read like this:

“A 17-year-old boy needed medical help after someone caught him stealing from vehicles.”

That someone was Eddie Steinhauer, and the police report as printed doesn’t hold a candle to Steinhauer’s account of what happened on Story Street that night.

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