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Editorial

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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 2 days, 21 hours ago
Keeping Elections Safe Keeps Montana Safe

All Montanans, regardless of party affiliation, must have confidence in the purity of our elections.

Updated 2 days, 21 hours ago
2025 Montana Budget: Balanced, Responsible and Delivering Tax Relief

Our $3.5 billion annual General Fund budget prioritizes what I call the “Big Three”:...

Updated 2 days, 21 hours ago
Montana’s growth depends on smart investment policy

That’s why recent discussions in Washington about raising taxes on investments, specifically carried interest, are so concerning.

Updated 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Wild Places Offer Us Something in Return

Earth Day isn’t just about remembering to recycle or plant a tree—it’s about remembering that we are part of nature, not separate from it.

Updated 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Bits n’ pieces from east, west and beyond

Trump ally Joe Rogan stated of the deportations: “It’s horrific. People who are not criminals are getting lassoed up.”

Updated 3 weeks, 5 days ago
The Oath

Just to be clear, anyone who willfully engages in any activity or that does not follow the letter of the law is ultimately engaged in treachery against our U.S. Constitution.

Updated 3 weeks, 5 days ago
From legislative secrecy to Constitutional sunlight

It was 1971 when, at 23, I took my seat in the Montana House of Representatives – the youngest member.

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

In a nutshell: destroying SS would allow the wealthy to dodge proposals to shore up SS by increasing or eliminating SS’s cap on taxable wages.

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
Keeping the Republic

Our democratic republic, though we’ve been blessed with it and devoted to it for 237 years, is nonetheless fragile. It is, after all, based upon the consent of every American. We cannot be forced to embrace it. We …

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
Incompetence meets corruption

But they couldn’t have avoided knowing that in 2021 Ellsworth confronted a Highway Patrolwoman who had pulled him over for going 88 mph in a 55-mph construction zone – at night.

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
It’s time to balance access with conservation on public lands and waters

The joke was on the public since many of those deeded lands never saw permanent rail lines built.

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
America has Stage 4 cancer

We taxpayers have been paying for all this ‘corpulence’ for YEARS & now we must educate ourselves re the disgusting waste, fraud, corruption...

Updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Republicans have shown their stripes

This devolution means people give up their rights, bit by bit, to a cultist leader who demands obedience and loyalty.

Updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Partisan judges

Our State’s Constitution has too many subjective terms like "privacy" in it which allows judges...

Updated 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Trump's call for terminating Constitution is deranged

George Washington, in his farewell address, warned that political parties would, over time, become “potent engines by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men would subvert the power of the people and usurp fo…