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The nation’s largest state journalism relief effort will provide tax credits for retaining and hiring reporters as local newsrooms continue to shrink.

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Mary Caferro, a Democrat in the Montana House, speaks at a July rally at the Montana Capitol in Helena, criticizing the state ...