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 […]

Political parties liable for the damage they cause A political party that backs a candidate is like a business that brands a product. The brand is an implicit guarantee of the product’s quality. When a brand-name product causes harm, the business becomes liable for damages. Consumers then become leery of anything that business markets. America […]

Montana voters recently voted in an extreme anti-wildlife and public lands Legislature. They also voted in Greg Gianforte as our next governor, thus ending the checks and balances we had enjoyed over the past 16 years. What this action will allow can be seen by the past history of the new governor. With a lifetime […]

World waiting on Congress to understand emergency People struggling here and around the world have been waiting for months for Congress to pass an emergency COVID-19 response bill. What is Congress not understanding about this emergency? Projections are that global hunger will double, and thousands of infants will suffer or die of severe malnutrition. An […]

It began with the Y2K conspiracies. Followed by 9/11. The longest war. Tea Party righteousness. A half-white president. A delusional president. A plague. Then the Montana Republican party’s win-at-any-cost surrender to wealthy out-of-state candidates buying personal legacies. The fact is: Our state government is about to be run by a decidedly bent-to-the-right pack of contrarians […]