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Updated 1 year, 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 1 year ago
Congress must act on Montana’s housing crisis

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

Updated 1 year ago
Tom Jenkins for House District 2

Tom Jenkins has paid his taxes on time forever and he is anxious to look into how those tax dollars are spent.

Updated 1 year 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 year 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 year ago
Cut n Paste Journalism

A recent article in a local newspaper is a case in point.

Updated 1 year ago
Montana reps address illegal immigration

Illegal migration has brought drugs, human trafficking, mules, cartels, terrorists on watch lists, and much more negative fallout.

Updated 1 year, 1 month 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 1 year, 1 month ago
In support of Zinn for Montana U.S. House seat

One who has fought the fight against evil on foreign soil while in the Drug Enforcement Agency, also Montana DEA head for five years.

Updated 1 year, 1 month 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 1 year, 1 month ago
Retired justices back Jerry Lynch for Chief Justice

His is a distinguished legal career: he became a magistrate judge by merit selection, recommended by his peers.

Updated 1 year, 1 month ago
Truth in sentencing

I recently read of a criminal sentencing, though more serious in nature...

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

Some history of foreign interference with gas prices...

Updated 1 year, 1 month ago
SB 442 meant to benefit rural Montana counties

The intent was not to give tax dollars based on population, but rather used a formula to put the dollars where hunting, fishing and recreation existed.