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Economic Outlook: The lights still burn in Anaconda-Deer Lodge County
February 7, 2022/
Today’s D section is The Montana Standard’s last of an annual three-part series on the economic outlook for Butte and southwest Montana.
The battleship appears to be steaming full speed ahead and the tortoise wears a smirk.
The gallows humor in 1980 sprang from strong emotions tied to the closing of the Anaconda copper smelter: Fear, anger, bewilderment and a desperate hope that smoke would someday billow again from the tall stack.
At the time, people wryly quipped, “Last one out, turn off the light.”
