Windy Boy restarts his campaign, strikes back at opponent, legislative leaders.

By DARRELL EHRLICK | Editor-in-Chief

"Cromwell and her colleagues across the state are being forced to weigh their oath to the Montana Constitution and its individual privacy provisions, as well as their duties to protect their clients from needless liability, against the threat of an extraordinary and novel exercise of executive power — all without the benefit and protection of Montana legal authority." – From a petition the Montana Supreme Court has accepted in a legal fight between Gallatin County Attorney Audrey Cromwell and Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen.

One of the nation’s most colorful celebrities who happens to be one of the state’s largest landowners, Ted Turner, dubbed “the mouth of the South,” has died in Florida. He was 87, founded CNN and owned sports teams as well as provided philanthropic support across the globe.

A look into the arrests from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its multi-pronged raids through American cities show that agents have made many “collateral” arrests — or taken people into custody even when they had not originally meant to look for them.

Outside the White House, protestors have been keeping vigil, hoping to raise awareness and foment public pressure to stop detaining immigrants in deportation centers, as well as stopping the practice of breaking up families.

Missoula County Attorney Matt Jennings writes in a column that Montana’s prison and jail overcrowding and mental health issues are tied closely together. And, if Montana would invest in more mental health treatment beforehand, maybe it would help reduce the heavy cost borne by Montana’s taxpayers.

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After such a heavy song yesterday (“Some Humans Ain’t Human” by John Prine), we may go just a bit lighter today.

The older the get the more I appreciate pop music. Sounds weird, I know. But at points in my younger years, I was skeptical if not dismissive of some of the radio or pop hits, thinking that many artists had simply sold out for money or run out of creative ideas.

Yet sometimes, you just need a song that you can sing along with and turn up loudly. Pop music fits that bill often. I find myself going back and re-listening to groups that had been hugely successful commercially, even if they didn’t go real deep lyrically or even musically.

One of those bands that I recently took another listen to was the Dave Clark Five. They rolled into popular music, helping to become part of the British Invasion of 1964. At times, they were greeted by the same thunderous applause and nearly fainting crowds that also embraced The Beatles. And unlike some other British acts, they managed a series of successful albums and hits that made them more than just a momentary fad. They may not have been as gimmicky as some — like the Monkees or Freddie and The Dreamers — but they certainly had a teenaged pop music fan base. And it’s easy to lose track of them with other more serious and long-lived bands like The Rolling Stones or even The Animals.

Recently, I dusted off the 1965 album, “Having A Wild Weekend,” and I found myself kind of enchanted by some of the poppy, bubblegum sounds that inundated the radio during the middle part of the decade. In fact, DC5 (as they were called) probably was a victim of British invasion as much as they were helped by it. There is more gold on those albums, but much of it was just boxed out by other amazing songs during those days when the world seemed to be shifting (sounds kind of familiar, huh?).

So, take a listen to “New Kind of Love,” and just enjoy it for what it is: A cool, forgotten piece of pop music that sounded a lot like many of the other hits coming from across the pond.

Yeah, it’s only rock-and-roll — and pretty tame rock-and-roll at that.

But I still like it.

More and more all the time, even.  

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