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State lawmakers target local COVID rules from all angles

by CHAD SOKOL
Daily Inter Lake | March 30, 2021 7:00 AM

Since the start of Montana's legislative session, Republican state lawmakers have considered a variety of novel ways to limit how local governments can respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Those approaches include nullifying local mask requirements that pertain to businesses, checking the autonomy of local health boards and restricting federal relief funding to cities, counties and schools that adopt more stringent regulations than the state's...

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