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After visiting my sister in Missoula, she reminded me that back in March she wrote her first article for the High Country News. Since then, she’s been hired for some more jobs so I’ll be promoting them here as they are released. In the mean time, here’s the High Country News article from March:

Down but not out in Missoula, Montana

The American dream is alive and well in Missoula, Mont., sort of. Not long after arriving here in the late 1990s, I found myself in the same conversation about real estate, hearing the same words and sharing the same sentiment. “You can’t eat the landscape,” someone would say, and everyone within earshot would laugh at the cliché, though it would usually be followed by an uncomfortable silence. Here’s what wasn’t funny then or now: In a recent Missoulian article, local realtors tallied their statistics and calculated a whopping $206,850 median price for a house, but only a median income of $43,200…

Read the rest of the article at the High Country News