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Editorial

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Updated 1 year, 5 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 9 months, 3 weeks ago
More than one way to interfere with an election

Therein lies the McConnell-Daines strategy; find a handpicked puppet that they can buy a Senate seat for and then completely control.

Updated 10 months ago
Bits n’ pieces from east, west and beyond

Between 2019 and 2021, 97 members of Congress, or their family members, invested in weapons contractor stocks; 25 of them sat on committees responsible for shaping national security while also trading and profiting…

Updated 10 months ago
Let’s keep our communities stable, safe and healthy

In 2023, Congress ended that protection and required states to redetermine eligibility for Medicaid recipients, increasing red tape and government hurdles for programs that keep our kids safe and healthy.

Updated 10 months ago
Concern over Gianforte’s property tax increases

Recently, a young friend reached out, concerned about his $100 monthly mortgage increase and he didn’t know why. That’s a lot of money - $1,200 a year.

Updated 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Time for accountability

The all-Republican Commission approved a 28% rate hike, the majority of which falls on small businesses and residential users – renters and homeowners.

Updated 11 months, 4 weeks 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Pride of a craft

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

Updated 1 year ago
Southern border is a national security risk

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

Updated 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year, 1 month 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 1 year, 1 month 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 1 year, 1 month 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 1 year, 1 month ago
Talking actual property tax numbers

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