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Darrell Ehrlick

Darrell Ehrlick

Darrell Ehrlick is the editor-in-chief of the Daily Montanan, after leading his native state’s largest paper, The Billings Gazette. He is an award-winning journalist, author, historian and teacher, whose career has taken him to North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Utah, and Wyoming. Daily Montanan is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.

Fighting for his own reelection, Democrat U.S. Sen. Jon Tester of Montana urges Biden not to run
By: - July 18, 2024

Montana’s senior U.S. senator and only Democratic member of the state’s congressional delegation is calling on President Joe Biden, also a Democrat, to not seek reelection in November. Tester is only the second Democrat in the Senate to make the call on the Biden candidacy, but other media report that former President Barack Obama, U.S. […]

Commentary

The complete failure of Thursday night
By: - June 28, 2024

There’s nothing quite like watching your democracy fail in real-time, with chyrons and everything. I’ve had some long moments in my life, but few seemed more elongated than the 90-minute debate between your great-grandpa and an aspiring authoritarian. As much as I was watching the debate, I was watching social media and came to realize […]