Montana Senator Steve Daines spoke on Wednesday at the Human Trafficking Awareness event sponsored by the Montana Native Women's Coalition at the Hilton Garden Inn.
The boom in the Bakken that has brought thousands of workers into the area, has also brought organized crime, complete with drugs, prostitution and gun violence.
Lest you think that the work in the oil patch in North Dakota is all money and long hours of hard work think again. It can be very dangerous. Our good friend Crustyacean (president of the Bitterroot Land Crab Motor Ass’n) has been working over in the Bakken for about a year now and sent us a couple of very interesting photos...
Just about every one of us knows someone who has gone to ND to work in the oil fields. It looks like they’ll be over there for longer than they originally thought. The folks in ND got some good news yesterday. A U.S. Geological Survey has determined that there are approximately 7...