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Column on NorthWestern building out of line

On April 21, I spoke to a group of Montana economic development professionals titled "what happens when the media calls." It was within hours of reading the Independent Record’s highly critical and factually incorrect opinion piece about the use of a well-known economic development tool to reduce the overall cost of our new general office. A tool which allowed the building to remain in Uptown Butte, paying taxes and fees to support further local development, while lowering the cost to our customers.

The irony of the timing between this piece and my presentation was the fact that the author, digital project specialist Landon Hemsley, didn’t contact anyone involved in this process before jumping to some unfortunate and incorrect assumptions.

Claudia Rapkoch

Full Story: http://helenair.com/news/opinion/guest/column-on-northwestern-building-out-of-line/article_046b2ca4-4935-51c3-8195-207ff9ac96de.html

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An IR View: Promoting an open exchange of ideas

One of the basic tenets of journalism says those in our profession must “support the open and civil exchange of views, even views they find repugnant."

That’s according to the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics, and it means we at the Independent Record have an obligation to give an equal amount of attention to all viewpoints regardless of whether we agree with them or not. And that goes for news stories as well as the commentary that appears on our opinion page.

Some of the columns in our paper — most recently Hemsley’s piece on NorthWestern Energy’s new building in Butte — are mistakenly believed to convey the opinion of the IR. In this case and all others, we assure you the opinions expressed by our columnists are theirs alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of this newspaper.

Full Story: http://helenair.com/news/opinion/editorial/an-ir-view-promoting-an-open-exchange-of-ideas/article_7a6fe018-fead-5023-af7e-b378ecae422c.html

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