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Special Report
6:55 am
Thu December 5, 2013

MTPR Special Report: "Bakken Spinoffs--The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"

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    Old and New Economies: An oil jack pumps on the edge of Sidney, Montana as steam rises from the town's old sugar-beet factory.
    Dan Boyce
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    Big rigs pound the streets of Sidney every day. The city's mayor estimates truck traffic has increased 50 percent in the last five or six years
    Dan Boyce
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    Sidney Herald Editor Bill Vanderwheele has been at the paper for almost 30 years and has seen a dramatic shift in the stories he covers since the start of the Bakken Boom.
    Dan Boyce
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    Reynold's Market, operating in Sidney since 1925, just moved to a new location twice the size of the old store.
    Dan Boyce
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    The North Dakota Humanities Council recently held a series of writing workshops to broaden the types of creative outlets available to people in the Bakken
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Thursdays during "Montana Evening Edition" for the last  six weeks, we have brought you a special series of stories on side effects of oil development in Eastern Montana. The Bakken Oil Boom is impacting the region, and the entire state, in ways both positive and negative. You can now hear all of the stories online.

The series examines:

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