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Editorial

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Updated 10 months ago

Former governor sounds off on property tax debacle

How did the largest percentage of Republicans elected in Montana history grow government at the fastest rate in st…

Updated 2 days, 18 hours ago
Biden electric vehicle mandates not practical for Montana

Fundamentally – Montanans, and the rest of the United States, will eventually be forced to purchase an electric vehicle (EV) for their family car – no matter how expensive it is.

Updated 2 days, 18 hours ago
Jenkins backed by Gianforte, Cuffe for new House seat

Jenkins is a candidate for newly created Montana House District 2, which stretches from Libby to Marion and Ashley Lake in Flathead County.

Updated 2 days, 18 hours ago
Republicans are betraying rural Montana

This is everything people hate about politics – politicians throwing away good legislation that makes a real impact in local communities.

Updated 2 days, 18 hours ago
Show Ponies Must Own Their Votes!

Show ponies are legislators who espouse conservative values to their respective central committees and local electorate but vote for their own self-interests while they are in Helena.

Updated 5 days, 18 hours ago
Congress must act on Montana’s housing crisis

Some of our neighbors and their kids are living on the streets.

Updated 5 days, 18 hours ago
Three special session calls in one week: Political grandstanding at its worst

That’s what repeated calls for a special session come down to – too many political show ponies.

Updated 1 week, 2 days ago
Montana courts are in great hands

The courts allow ordinary people to challenge abuses of power, to make sure that the Constitution isn’t just a forgotten piece of paper.

Updated 1 week, 5 days ago
Tackling the rising cost of housing in Montana together

Across the state home prices are more than 70 percent higher today than they were just five years ago.

Updated 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Bits n’ pieces from east, west and beyond

But astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson had words for that 10 years ago: “If you had the power to transform Mars into Earth, then you have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.”

Updated 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Intervenors support Energy Keepers on Flathead Lake levels

Their latest forecast of inflows and outflows and Flathead Lake level projects that the lake level will be at 2,893 feet for the entire summer recreation season.

Updated 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Put voters back in charge of election system

That’s why we, alongside a broad coalition of Montanans from around the state, are working hard to qualify CI-126 and CI-127 for the ballot this November to put voters back in charge of our election system and our …

Updated 1 month ago
Bits n’ pieces from east, west and beyond

Some history of foreign interference with gas prices...

Updated 1 month ago
Rocky Mountain ADA Center supports south Lincoln Co.

Our team is easily accessed through our 1800 number: 1-800-949-4232 or website https://rockymountainada.org/ or various social media outlets from Facebook, to TikTok to LinkedIn and others.

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
The record is clear: The GOP can’t govern

Closer to home, the list of GOP failures to govern is even more stunning. For a political party that won every statewide office in the last election, the extent of its dereliction of duty is shameful.

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Bits n’ pieces from east, west and beyond

Nearly half of senior Congressional staffers contemplate leaving, primarily due to safety concerns.