David Hammett, a former Pinkerton strikebreaker-turned-writer, modeled the fictional town of Poisonville on Butte, calling it an “ugly city of forty thousand people set in an ugly notch between two ...

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Some of the jobs roped into the American Climate Corps have funding locked down for much of Trump’s term. Zampaglione’s program, the Forest Corps, has $15 million in funding from the U.S. Forest ...