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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 11 months ago
Montana is facing a statewide land management crisis

Your community would rally to keep a local rancher in business. Won’t you do the same to keep a local sawmill in business?

Updated 11 months ago
A case for banning book bans

As naive as some of these Moms for Liberty groups are, I had been exposed to plenty of porn and cussing long before I entered a literature class as a junior in high school.

Updated 11 months, 1 week ago
Jenkins backed by Gianforte, Cuffe for new House seat

Jenkins is a candidate for newly created Montana House District 2, which stretches from Libby to Marion and Ashley Lake in Flathead County.

Updated 11 months, 1 week ago
Conservation easement good for Northwest Montana

If we lose the land to subdivision and development, we’ll never get back the magic of Northwest Montana. The Phase 1 easement will protect nearly 33,000 acres from such a generational loss.

Updated 11 months, 1 week ago
Show Ponies Must Own Their Votes!

Show ponies are legislators who espouse conservative values to their respective central committees and local electorate but vote for their own self-interests while they are in Helena.

Updated 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Biden electric vehicle mandates not practical for Montana

Fundamentally – Montanans, and the rest of the United States, will eventually be forced to purchase an electric vehicle (EV) for their family car – no matter how expensive it is.

Updated 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Republicans are betraying rural Montana

This is everything people hate about politics – politicians throwing away good legislation that makes a real impact in local communities.

Updated 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Congress must act on Montana’s housing crisis

Some of our neighbors and their kids are living on the streets.

Updated 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Three special session calls in one week: Political grandstanding at its worst

That’s what repeated calls for a special session come down to – too many political show ponies.

Updated 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Montana courts are in great hands

The courts allow ordinary people to challenge abuses of power, to make sure that the Constitution isn’t just a forgotten piece of paper.

Updated 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Tackling the rising cost of housing in Montana together

Across the state home prices are more than 70 percent higher today than they were just five years ago.

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

But astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson had words for that 10 years ago: “If you had the power to transform Mars into Earth, then you have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.”

Updated 1 year ago
Intervenors support Energy Keepers on Flathead Lake levels

Their latest forecast of inflows and outflows and Flathead Lake level projects that the lake level will be at 2,893 feet for the entire summer recreation season.

Updated 1 year ago
Put voters back in charge of election system

That’s why we, alongside a broad coalition of Montanans from around the state, are working hard to qualify CI-126 and CI-127 for the ballot this November to put voters back in charge of our election system and our …

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

Some history of foreign interference with gas prices...