By COURTNEY SMITH Guest columnist Two weeks ago today, Derek Chauvin was convicted of the horrific murder of George Floyd to a nationwide sigh of relief. While we are delighted in the historic ruling, within 24 hours of the verdict, six more Black and brown lives were taken at the hands of police around the […]
The Republican Party is desperate. They know the demographic numbers are against them. The only collusion they have to keep power is to suppress the vote as much as possible, especially in Democratic precincts. One in 10 eligible voters in 2020 were Generation Z, born after 1996. That equals roughly 24 million who were able […]
There’s a saying I’d like to expand upon. If you want to change the world, start at home. That can apply to so many facets of our society, but for now I’d like to apply that wisdom to combating climate change and the management role of the Custer Gallatin National Forest. To be honest, this […]
New washers and dryers can sense sense when it’s a time of low demand on the energy grid — and fire up. “The future is coming,” said Dwight Rose, with IBEW Local 44, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. “We’ve got to figure out how we’re going to power this somehow.” Rose was speaking in […]
Use of coal for generation of electricity is terminal. The final death is a ways off but there is zero future in coal. However, based on the comments and actions of our state GOP “leadership” along with Daines and Rosendale, it would seem that we are still living in the 1950’s. The present GOP attitude […]
Many natives of the pacific island of Tanna (formerly New Hebrides) in the Pacific believed that the recently deceased Prince Phillip was god-like. There is speculation that Prince Charles may be the next incarnation of the islander’s deity. Many of the Jan. 6 rioters and their supporters have indicated that the 45th US President was […]
I am incensed at Gov. Gianforte signing and our Republican legislators passing the election laws restricting voter access in Montana. All the restrictive election bills being passed in Montana and other states are predicated on the “big lie,” pure and simple. Former president Trump and his minions and supporters are corrupt in their insistence that […]
Concealed carry law will lead to deaths on campus The Montana University System is fully justified in its opposition to House Bill 102, enabling and budgeting for open and concealed carry gun use on Montana state campuses. The prefrontal cortex in human brains is responsible for organizing behavior, including consideration, ordering and timing of behaviors, […]
I almost fell out of my chair when I heard Sen. Daines question Sec. Deb Haaland on grizzly bear science. Relying on criteria in a nearly 30-year-old recovery plan (that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now concedes is outdated), he insisted grizzlies in the Yellowstone region are now fully recovered since the population is […]
An open letter to Northwestern Energy: Climate change is upon us, in part because of energy companies like you. I am terrified that our house and neighborhood will burn down this year or the next or the next because of climate change. I am not an idiot and understand that wildfires happened before climate change […]