Episode Forty-One - Darrell Ehrlick

The State of Montana

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Episode Forty-One - Darrell Ehrlick

Former Billings Gazette Editor; Founder and editor of the Daily Montanan

Russell Rowland

Oct 19, 2024

Transcript

Darrell Ehrlick was born and raised in Billings, and after spending about seventeen years working for newspapers all over the country, he came back to Montana to become the editor of the Billings Gazette in 2013. Darrell left the Gazette after the restructuring of Lee Newspapers in 2020, and soon after that become the founding editor of the Daily Montanan. You can find the Daily Montana here.

Thanks to Buchanan Capital for sponsoring the podcast, and to Phil Aaberg for his music.

Discussion about this episode

The State of Montana

Montana has a long history of very complicated politics, often influenced by major corporations, as with the Copper Kings in our early history, or oil money. But we also have a strong track record of very progressive milestones, the most significant of which was the election of the first woman to ever serve in Congress, Jeanette Rankin. We also have what most constitutional historians consider one of the strongest state constitutions in the country. We have always boasted a very significant balance of power as well, but recently that has changed, and I want to understand why, and what can be done about it. So I'm going to interview some of our more high-profile citizens, not necessarily politicians, to explore this issue. My first guest will be Dorothy Bradley, who was the first woman to run for governor of the state. Dorothy just barely lost to Marc Racicot in 1992.

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