Montana has been hit hard by the recent economic downturn. Visits to the Missoula Food Bank are up dramatically, as people effected by the downturn search for ways to get by. But thanks to an increase in donations, the Food Bank is coping with larger numbers of people at its doors?for now. The Food Bank's development director Nick Roberts explains.
Tricia Binette, 26, has been waiting for this moment for over thirty-six months. Waiting to put on different clothes, waiting to take a bath, waiting to smoke a cigarette, waiting to eat at Pizza Hut, and, most of all, just waiting. Tricia has served a three-year sentence for robbery and for selling crack cocaine. Today she will be released.
For the past 38 years, Virginia Vincent has been keeping watch over a large swath of the Lolo National Forest in western Montana. At 77 years of age, this is her last summer atop Stark Mountain as a fire lookout. Here is Big Eye In The Sky, in her own words.
Matthew Kongo, a leader in the Sudanese refugee community in Portland, Maine, talks about his life in Southern Sudan and about genocide. Kongo is a Catholic who fled Sudan with his family because of persecution. They arrived in the United States in 2001.
