Powered by an earnest sense of municipal do-goodery, she wanted to revive local manufacturing, generate jobs, expand trail access and support a struggling and understaffed police department. She said she didn’t run for mayor as a revolutionary, just as an alternative to a two-decade incumbent. This story also appeared in Glendive Ranger ReviewĪll the ingredients were there: a multi-generational power structure with a long-established way of conducting business under next to no scrutiny a collective amnesia about local civic history a population (4,871, as counted in 2021) anxious about the economic future of their town, which, like many tiny towns across the prairie, had stagnated - even with its newly legal marijuana dispensaries and proximity to intersecting highways, the Yellowstone River, Montana’s largest state park, and the once-money-minting Bakken Formation.
