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Editorial

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Updated 1 year, 9 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, 6 hours 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 2 days, 6 hours 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 week, 6 days 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 week, 6 days 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 week, 6 days 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 2 weeks, 2 days 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 2 weeks, 6 days 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 3 weeks, 6 days 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 3 weeks, 6 days ago
Partisan judges

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

Updated 1 month 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…

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

“Think about it—we’re talking about people who own their own spaceships who are trying to take away healthcare for millions of kids.”

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

Private industries are cutting back due to DOGE budget slashing and tariffs are a “paralyzing” influence.

Updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Senate Dems Are Putting Montanans First — Federal Delegation Should Do the Same

How can we invest in Montana’s future if the very programs that create opportunity are on the chopping block?

Updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Bits n’ pieces from east, west and beyond

Trump posted on X that the “America First” reconciliation bill will make America great again. The bill proposes an $800 billion cut to Medicaid. In the past Trump said he opposed Medicaid cuts.

Updated 2 months ago
Putting Montana families first with paid family leave

It’s good for families, good for businesses and good for Montana.