I’ve been honored to represent Bozeman in the state Legislature for the last 14 years. Due to term limits my service will end in early 2021. Recent events prompt me to offer one final letter to the editor as a state senator. I’ve witnessed much social turmoil over the course of my political career that […]

Regarding the Carlsons’ latest column (Dec. 8), I wish to set the record straight on the right-wing lie they parroted about conservative speakers being muzzled at colleges while liberal speakers are free to say what they want. Over the past 14 years, I have presented “Around the World in 90 Minutes” at hundreds of colleges in […]

Thank you, Matt Kelley, for your work, dedication How would you feel if someone showed up at your place of work and loudly and publicly criticized your performance? Someone who had never worked in your field, had never been trained in your practices, had never studied your trade, had never used your tools? Someone who […]

A recent letter claimed poisoning of minds of voters, by those who “lied and withheld news of Trump’s accomplishments…one of the best presidents of our lifetime.” That boggles the mind: that president is, among other things, the one whose ignorance alone was responsible for so many needless deaths during less than one year of coronavirus. Remembering […]

Sen. Daines: I read in a recent Chronicle that you and your wife, having participated in the Pfizer vaccine trial, enjoy the safety-net of COVID-19 antibodies. I’m happy for you. Now, why not get off your butt and tell your president to co-operate with the Biden transition team so they can understand what plans are […]

Four years ago, thousands of snow geese landed on the toxic waters of the Berkeley Pit in Butte. As many as four thousands of these spectacular birds died from drinking water laced with heavy metals from decades of mining. Up to 1.3 billion birds die in the U.S. every year from electrocution, poisoning, oil spills, […]

I have good health insurance. I wish everyone did. A California nurse writing in a recent Washington Post asks: “As thousands of athletes get coronavirus tests, nurses wonder: What about us?” In the eight months that she has been working with covid patients she has not herself been tested. Not once, she says. If she […]

To all you folks out there who voted for our governor-elect here are some things we can expect: First, he will attempt to privatize education at the expense of public schools, thus weakening an already fragile financial situation for public schools. Second, he will accomplish the above by busting unions, especially the teacher’s union, and […]

Good policy will help put Trumpism in our rearview In 2020, Donald Trump garnered 94% of the Republican vote, an increase of 6% over 2016. In both elections, he lost the popular vote. More white voters voted for Trump in 2020 than did in 2016, including 55 percent of white women, whose suburban enclaves Trump […]

Here’s a thought: How about we try ignoring the current president until he leaves the White House? What would happen if he had no more fuel to add to his fires? If no one read his fallacious tweets? If the world carried on as if he were of no consequence? He has, of course, been […]