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Battling substance abuse requires collaborative effort
Two and a half years ago, Attorney General Tim Fox and I stood on the steps of the state capitol with other lawmak…
Montana agriculture provides abundance all year
As the days get longer and the weather warms, many of us begin to plan and dream of the upcoming growing season. Warmer seasons for many mean connecting with the land and enjoying the fresh produce from our efforts…
We Montanans can protect our own backyards
The legislative session brings one of Montana’s most powerful and widely held values into question, our public lands. Some aim to transfer management and ownership of our public lands heritage, and this is unaccept…
Notes from Helena
Efforts to keep the infestation of aquatic invasive species away from waters west of the Continental Divide will create many seasonal jobs. Details are below.
Schools' charter program receives grant
Submitted by Craig Barringer
In response to letter supporting Trump
In response to the unhinged comments by Mr. Barney, from Polson, BTW, Russia DID interfere in the elections. 1) Trump has already issued enough ideas and orders to seriously shrink employment and lower wages for ev…
Budget cuts equal cuts in quality of life
The quality of life we enjoy in Montana is directly connected to the public investments we make in our communities – modern schools and quality education for our children, safe roads, updated water and sewer system…
Opposes Zinke's move to allow lead ammunition
What is wrong with Ryan Zinke, eliminating the ban on lead ammunition? Every hunter and sportsman/woman that I know have no problem keeping lead out of the environment for the safety of wildlife. I checked the loca…
Rising mineral demand must spur new mining approach in U.S.
A new government report suggests we must revisit the regulatory regime that restricts hard rock mining in the United States. A surge in demand is coming for the minerals and metals needed in every sector of our eco…
Stakeholders bring conservation and harvest together
I grew up the son of a logger in the timber industry. Since I was 12 years old, I would be out there working, first with a branding hammer and paint, all the way up to running the processor. During those years, I s…
Get behind the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Project
It is refreshing to see such a home-grown Montana solution to what could have been — and is sometimes in other places — a messy and contentious forest management situation. I’m referring to the collaborative soluti…
HB2 will cut Medicaid
My name is Antoinette Newman and I live in the Good Samaritan Society Mountain View Manor nursing home in Eureka. Right now our State House of Representatives is considering House Bill 2, Section B.
Liberals are going through the 'terrible twos'
So what did you expect from the liberals after Trump was elected? Did you think they would act like good sports and, while not affirming the President’s agenda, they would be deferential to the will of the citizens…
To anyone who will stop long enough to read this
The storm expected to meet or exceed previous records had already launched its first wave sometime during the early hours of Feb. 3 and by first light of that same day, I was admitted to Cabinet Peaks Medical Cente…
The target of the Border Adjustment Tax is you
“On life support,” says U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)of the “Border Adjustment Tax,” proposed during last year’s GOP presidential primaries by U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and backed by Speaker of the House Paul …
Fed up with lack of compensation for ARD
We are former residents of Libby, we spent 10 years there. Like with most folks there Jeff was diagnosed with an ARD, we have been going through the legal process to get some relief for this condition, we were wond…