Editorial
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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…
Keeping Elections Safe Keeps Montana Safe
All Montanans, regardless of party affiliation, must have confidence in the purity of our elections.
2025 Montana Budget: Balanced, Responsible and Delivering Tax Relief
Our $3.5 billion annual General Fund budget prioritizes what I call the “Big Three”:...
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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...
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.
Partisan judges
Our State’s Constitution has too many subjective terms like "privacy" in it which allows judges...
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…