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Skylar Baker-Jordan

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Editor, Glasgow Courier

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What Is Happening With Northern Ireland And Brexit?

What Is Happening With Northern Ireland And Brexit?

It was all so utterly predictable. The Irish demand, and Theresa May gives, Northern Ireland a special deal g…

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In 72 hours, Trump undermined everything the Republicans stood for

In 72 hours, Trump undermined everything the Republicans stood for

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Theresa May Should Not Ban Trump From Britain (As Much As We May Want Her To)

Theresa May Should Not Ban Trump From Britain (As Much As We May Want Her To)

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COMMENT | Gay Media... Do better

COMMENT | Gay Media... Do better

That's how long Josh Rivers lasted as editor-in-chief of Gay Times, Britain's oldest and arguably most presti…

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MONEY | In a changing world, gay couples plan for their financial future

MONEY | In a changing world, gay couples plan for their financial future

50 years since the decriminalisation of male homosexuality, Britain has come a long way in equality for same-…

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As someone who grew up among fundamentalist Christians in the US, I'm surprised anyone's surprise...

As someone who grew up among fundamentalist Christians in the US, I'm surprised anyone's surprise...

Yesterday, a fifth woman came forward to accuse "Judge" Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for US Senate fro…

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America 250: Ten Small Towns That Made Us Who We Are

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The history of America is written not only in its great cities and skyscrapers. It can be found in Appalachian hollows, along the banks of the Mississippi, in southwestern deserts and on the prairies of the High Plains. Small towns and rural communities have contributed much to the epic narrative of our nation. As we celebrate 250 years of American independence, it is worth looking back at some of the small towns which have made us who we are.
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Commentary: Defining American Character for 250 Years

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By Skylar Baker-Jordan Verified
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In 1890 the Census Bureau had found the American West so densely populated that the frontier effectively vanished. No more was there a place so far removed from civilization as to be untamed wilderness. America, the Census Bureau declared, was settled. The historian Frederick Jackson Turner lamented this development three years later in his famous Frontier Thesis. “American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier,” he wrote.
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Commentary: Ghosts of Housing Past (and Present)

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By Skylar Baker-Jordan Verified
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I live in a ghost town. No, really. In March, I took a job editing a local newspaper in Glasgow, Montana. Yet, unable to find a house in town, I wound up living about 20 miles north in Saint Marie – dubbed “Montana’s newest ghost town” in a recent lecture hosted by the Montana Historical Society. What was once military housing for those stationed at the Glasgow Air Force Base, when the base was decommissioned in the 1970s, the town around it was largely left to decay into the prairie.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Rise Over Run Magazine. It's a now-defunct e-mag that got started in south central Kentucky. I'd never written before that.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I have! I used one my freshman year of high school, and it was so retro, even then. But I remember being proud to know how to use one.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

So quite controversially, it seems, I don't use Microsoft Word--I type on Open Office--and I still carry a voice recorder from the 1980s.