Pete Talbot is a film and video producer based in Missoula, Montana. He’s passionate about progressive politics, skiing and his three grandchildren (nine-year-old Grace, three-year-old Taj and one-year-old Mercedes, who all live in Bozeman).
Pete is a former partner at WestRidge Creative, an advertising firm in Missoula that provides marketing for nonprofits, and coordinates issue and candidate campaigns. He is now the Director of Special Projects at WestRidge — a fancy title he made up that requires very little work.
He also does freelance film and video production under the name Sterling Productions, a company he founded nearly 30 years ago. He has produced pieces for the History Channel, Lifetime Television, Home and Garden Network, and ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
He’s a past board member of Missoula’s Sustainable Business Council and the former treasurer for Missoula Community Access Television (MCAT). Politically, Pete has served on the Montana Democratic Party Executive Board and was chairman of the Missoula County Democrats.
Pete came to blogging late in life and his nine-year-old granddaughter is more computer literate than he is. He wrote columns for New West for a couple of years but liked the political leanings at 4&20 and gladly came on board when invited by Jay.
He’s been married to Myonne for 22 years, and has a stepson in Bozeman and a stepdaughter who just moved back to Missoula from Moscow, Idaho.
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January 26, 2008 at 4:25 pm
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We agree with your observations and empathize completely. My day also begins with curling up with a cup of coffee, the newspaper, then the puzzles. So what if my fingers end up inky!
I’m not a regular blogger, but this one was pointed out to me.
We’ll hope for the best.
March 16, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Thanks for the info.
I am saddened and troubled that there is someone missing. I also think it is fair for anyone who grew up in Bozeman (like me) or anyone who made it their home later in life to be really bummed out that the R Bar and businesses around it have been destroyed. No wants to see a pile of rubble in place of an establishment that holds fond memories. And no one likes to see buildings of historical significance disappear. The feeling for Bozemanites is not unlike the feeling expressed by my husband, a native New Yorker, after 9/11 when he said, “It makes me really sad that there’s a giant hole in the middle of my hometown.”
March 27, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Are you the Pete Talbot that went to JCU in the early 70′s?
June 17, 2009 at 1:40 pm
On flatheadmemo.com, I’ve posted three articles on how the Democrats are selling a single-payer system down the river. So, I’ll be brief here. Health care “reform” is likely to come in the form of the Massachusetts plan (private health insurance, a requirement to buy health insurance, and subsidies for those the government thinks cannot afford insurance), which is Richard Nixon’s plan.
If a public option becomes part of Obamacare, that helps some, but not much. But I don’t think the public option will survive. It could be the compromise position between a single-payer scheme and the Massachusetts model. But without a serious single-payer model to protect it, the public option becomes a bargaining chip to secure support of the Massachusetts plan, which isn’t working out very well.
Those Democrats who brush off single-payer advocates with the patronizing admonition to not let the perfect become the enemy of the good, misunderstand the politics of the situation. In the case, the reality is that only by proposing the perfect or almost perfect can the good earn enough friends to survive.
September 1, 2009 at 7:19 am
To Peter Talbot…Are you Don Anderson’s grandson?