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Today I watched our Gallatin County Republican Legislators, J. Hinkle, C. Hinkle of Belgrade and J. Gillette, West Yellowstone, Big Sky, Gallatin Gateway and Four Corners, vote for the COVID Relief Bill HB 362 which strips Gallatin County of its fair share of the Federal Covid money supplied by the Democrats of Congress. Gallatin County […]
I appreciated BDC’s response to the Bozeman Health Care editorial regarding the hospital’s opinion to address “behavioral health care.” I am offended that this is the term used by health care professionals. Is this an attempt to distance from the fact that the brain is an organ in our bodies and should be a part […]
Our country is forcing high school seniors to choose between unbearable university or technical college debt, or not attending any college. This is a lose/lose decision for these people and for our country. Both the federal government and state governments have continued to withdraw funding support for colleges, and even public land grant universities have […]
Senate Bill 379 is a bill drafted almost entirely by NWE, as its, “…glide path out of Colstrip.” That glide path would be made possible by dumping the undepreciated costs of NWE’s 25% ownership interest in Unit 4, and its share of remediation costs (read as pollution of ground water), upon the ratepayers and not […]
By BRIAN SCHWEITZER Guest columnist I didn’t study political science in college. I’m a soil scientist. So when people sling political terms around, I have to look them up in Webster’s Dictionary. Webster writes that “socialism is when government takes over the means of production.” Webster’s says that “crony capitalism” occurs when business thrives not […]
A couple of weeks ago I submitted a letter entitled “Are we insane?” related to the Republicans deciding that every gun loving lunatic should be allowed to carry a gun anywhere they wanted to. This seems like an insane idea from any direction that you approach it. Any use of weapons results in more collateral […]
By LEI-ANNA BERTELSEN, JAN STROUT and RACHEL KRUG Guest columnists It has been an exhausting year for women. Many have lost their jobs and businesses. Others are still contending with shuttered schools, an ever-increasing workload and a to-do list that never ends. While much has changed, some things have stubbornly persisted. We are more aware […]
If the passing of House Bill 259 doesn’t represent the warped and skewed priorities present in our state and federal governments nothing does. “Of, by and for the people” once again takes a back seat to the monetary interests of the few and our elected officials’ corporate masters. The working and less fortunate portion of […]
I sometimes wonder why my ancestors in South Carolina owned slaves before the Civil War. How could they possibly have not realized the horror and evil they inflicted upon others? Why did they not immediately correct their wrongdoing and free those who suffered under them? To the modern mind, the relative excuse that my ancestors […]
It seems all the Republican “wannabes” won in the November election. Even “their” President won in Montana. Even after 16 years they won the office of the governor! Now the special interest legislators are springing their surprises. Home construction owners don’t want individual cities to set rules regarding low income housing requirements. They lose dollars […]