Information that is important and relevant to the people of Montana.
In 2015, after many years working internationally in Asia, I returned to the Gallatin Valley, where I was born and raised to attend graduate school at Montana State University. Having grown up in Belgrade, and attended MSU for my undergrad degree, I have long been aware of Bozeman’s extremely restrictive housing market. Naturally, as couples […]
Amid war in Ukraine, energy issues are making lots of headlines. In the midst of a confusing situation, it’s worth setting aside political talking points and looking at how Montana can help solve our current energy challenge. The world needs to stop using Russian oil and natural gas as swiftly as possible. For the U.S., […]
Just a few days ago, reporting from Seaborn Larson brought it to my attention that Montana State Hospital has some serious problems. The article stated: “A federal agency has given the Montana State Hospital 23 days to correct noncompliance issues so severe that the agency determined patients’ health and safety are in immediate danger, or […]
“The historic 2020 election, deemed the most secure in modern history by election officials of both parties, achieved record-shattering voter participation and necessary expansions to voter access during a deadly pandemic. Now is not the time to back down, but to surge forward. Federal voting rights protections cannot wait and are vital to saving the […]
Community organizers have long known that “It is better to have a thousand people talk to one person than to have one person talk to a thousand.” The conversations each of us have, one on one, with family, friends, and neighbors make a difference. In the fall of 2020, I began to knock on doors […]
For the better part of a year now, I have been organizing in Gallatin County, because I wholeheartedly believe that the government can and should do a better job caring for our communities. There are far too many people feeling disillusioned, skeptical, or just plain old let down. And they’re not wrong to feel that […]
Written by Representative Kelly Kortum, HD-65 Bozeman, published on September 28, 2021. “At least four times this last legislative session, the Republican majority showed us that they do not trust Montanan voters to decide their own future… One-hundred-fifty-one people get to change our state law. You get to vote for three of them: your representative, […]
On August 25, municipal, nonpartisan candidates running in the 2021 election in Belgrade and Bozeman joined your neighbors in the Gallatin Democrats to share ideas on what city government can do to tackle issues facing you and your community. At the start of the community conversation, each candidate who attended introduced themselves. Below are the […]
Your Democratic legislators from Gallatin County worked tirelessly this spring to do the people’s work in the 2021 Montana Legislature, and sought to help, not hurt, Montanans. Unfortunately, the Republican-controlled legislature did not listen, and destructive laws have been passed that allow COVID-19 to continue it’s chokehold on Montana and Montanans. Representatives Denise Hayman, Jim […]
Your neighbor, Bruce Gourley, wrote a recent letter to the editor in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Read the full letter here. “Embedded in the fabric of our nation, systemic racism was the product of white people controlling the levers of power. And it remains so. Even now, whites as a whole have far more power […]