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Updated 8 months, 2 weeks 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 3 months ago
Montana Supreme Court protects taxpayers and students equally

The reduction in uniform mills would have reduced taxes for out-of-state corporations by millions per year. By comparison, this change would have reduced an average homeowner’s property taxes by only $45 per year.

Updated 3 months, 1 week ago
A 2023 Political Recap: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

When we look back on the last year, all these changes and more were brought you by one party and its supermajority: Montana Republicans.

Updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago
More history on the Stimson Mill

In 2002, Stimson was being hammered with rapidly escalating and ultimately untenable insurance premiums due to W.R. Grace’s asbestos legacy.

Updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Pride of a craft

America was built by a lot of people with dirty hands. They are still building it.

Updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Southern border is a national security risk

Montana is a northern border state with a southern border crisis.

Updated 3 months, 4 weeks ago
Support for meat made in a lab

It has the potential to dramatically reduce the suffering we inflict on animals, as well as our greenhouse-gas emissions and pandemic risk.

Updated 3 months, 4 weeks ago
Ballot issues leave county resident concerned for 2024 election

When our ballots were somewhat late, I called the election office in Libby. They told me I could come to Libby to get our ballots. I went to our Eureka county commissioner and asked if our ballots could be faxed up…

Updated 4 months ago
The truth about your home’s property tax increase

As we prepare to write an actual check for our home property taxes, we are livid.

Updated 4 months ago
Strengthening the integrity of Montana’s elections

We’re now less than a year out from one of the biggest elections in Montana history.

Updated 4 months, 1 week ago
A bad recipe for our republic

They talked to those 4,347 voters about 13 months after the 2020 election and based on what the voters told them got the facts, or at least the facts as the voters could remember them more than a year after they vo…

Updated 4 months, 1 week ago
Truth and honest inquiry should guide our country, not religion

Christian nationalists are constantly sensitive to any criticism of their beliefs, to where they believe they are victims in today’s society.

Updated 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Just another day in paradise

Revolted by this latest massacre, a friend called me and said: “Do you know we’ve killed more people by gun violence in the last two years in America, than civilians killed by Russia in Ukraine.”

Updated 5 months ago
Killed or maimed by a product? The Montana Legislature says, ‘Good luck'

In the face of this record, it is shocking that your 2023 legislature not only effectively eliminated strict liability for dangerous products, it also barred all claims against manufacturers filed more than 10 year…

Updated 5 months ago
Talking actual property tax numbers

The complexity of Montana's property tax system requires data-driven solutions over partisan finger-pointing.

Updated 5 months ago
$100 million rate heist?

On Wednesday, the Commission unanimously approved a 28% rate increase from last year, the majority of which will fall on small businesses and residential users – renters and homeowners.